"They don't speak English in the faculty": The challenges faced by international students in Bulgaria

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A medical student argues that EU universities teaching 400 English-speaking students should hire only English speakers, citing language barriers for faculty and staff.

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A fourth-year medical student at Plovdiv Medical University asserts that any European Union university aiming to train 400 English-speaking medical students per cohort must hire only English speakers, arguing that conducting conversations in English presents as significant a challenge for department heads as it does for the students themselves.

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