The principals of 16 schools in Sofia and dozens in Burgas and Varna received threatening emails about planted explosive devices. In some schools classes were suspended and the police searched the buildings. Nothing alarming has..
In Bulgarian society, there is a group of children to whom almost no attention is paid. They often remain invisible, and in the last 10 years their number has been constantly increasing. These are the refugee children who left their homes, homeland,..
Only 15% of teachers in Bulgaria are under the age of 35 , and 70 percent of them leave the educational system in the very first year of working there, the trade union "Education" reported to Podkrepa Confederation of Trade Unions. Another alarming..
Textbooks will be free for all students from 1st to 12th grade , MPs unanimously decided today, while voting on amendments to the Preschool and School Education Act. Currently, this measure applies only to children up to the seventh grade...
A national forum Innovation Schools for the Future , organized by the Ministry of Education and Science, opens today in Sofia. The forum will focus on schoolteachers who are an inspiration, modern education in innovative schools and ways of..
STEM centres will be established in many schools across the country, the caretaker deputy prime minister for EU funds management Atanas Pekanov has announced. The idea of STEM education is hands-on learning focused on science,..
The idea of lowering minimum temperatures in classrooms is not on the table , caretaker Health Minister Assen Medzhidiev said on the eve of the new school year, as he and Education Minister Sasho Penov presented a pilot project for telemedicine at a..
Businesses have demanded compensation for high electricity prices. In a letter to the prime minister and ministers, employers' organizations remind that the current compensation scheme expires in September and call for urgent measures. A possible delay..
123 schools in different municipalities in Bulgaria will receive over 1,500 laptops before the start of the new school year, the Ministry of Education announced. The laptops are provided under the national program "Information and communication..
The poor results of the national external assessment have focused public attention on one major problem - the quality of Bulgarian education. They have raised a number of questions: what knowledge and skills do graduates have; are they able to meet the..
