A mobile SOS team took part in a meeting of university students from the International University Collage - Dobrich and later participated in the International Day of the collage

13/03/10

Under the invitation of the student’s council of the International University Collage, a SOS team took part in the International Day of the collage. On Friday the youths made a presentation on the proposed suggestions and discussed them with the university students. A very pleasant surprise turned out to be the fact that in the private collage (with about 1000 students, 100 of which foreign) the greater majority of suggestions for reforms in the SOS campaign had been already adopted and were working. The grading system has been widened and the overall performance of the students is taken under attention, rather then only the exams and quizzes.
The lecturing collective works only in the International University Collage and reads lections only in foreign universities. The students travel to gather work experience in foreign countries 1-2 times and it is mandatory to gather work experience in their own fields, as well. The labour givers in the field are well familiarised with the qualities of education in the university and there is almost no university student from the facility who does not realize himself in his field. A statistic followed by the university. Only in very few universities the students are concerned for the future of the educational facility. Here the learners were visibly worried about the suggestion for merge and expressed hope that this process will start with good criteria, not only quantity.

After the presentation the SOS team met with the foreign students, who had presented their home countries and native cities. In the dialogue with the foreigners it was apparent that they are satisfied with what they get from the International University Collage.

On Saturday there was a meeting with the rector of the collage – Associate Professor Dr. Todor Radev, who expressed an opinion, that the stand still and the lack of competition are baneful for higher education and that it is high time for the stoppage of the creation of jobless MA graduates.  He expressed his support for the campaign and even gave a couple of suggestions on how to realize the voucher system and student mobility.

The SOS team was more then impressed with the visit in Dobrich, and saw with their own eyes how a small collage, can achieve great results and even reach the 250th spot in the world classification of business schools.