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Business | August 24, 2016, Wednesday // 18:52
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Bulgarian government has issued an order for 12 university majors to become protected by law.
The order concerns academic programs, where students have shown little interest in recent years but the country needs highly qualified experts in exactly those fields, or unique to the Bulgarian educational system academic programs.
The list includes language and cultural studies of Arabic, Korean, Armenian, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Hungarian, Japanese and Hebrew.
The reason those majors need to be preserved concerns already signed contracts and agreements among Bulgarian government, educational institutions and businesses.
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