Education Ministry

Amazon Web Services' (AWS) generous donation of USD 1 million to Sofia University's Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Technology (INSAIT) has been hailed as a transformative contribution, as announced by the press center of the Education Ministry.

BELGRADE - Serbian police said on Monday they had identified several Serbian nationals and one person located abroad as the perpetrators behind a series of false bomb alerts that have targeted Belgrade schools over the past weeks, unsettling pupils, parents and school employees.

The Education Ministry on Wednesday announced the minimum grades high school graduates will need to score in their final exams to enter university at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year. 

The minimum scores on the nationwide university entrance exams vary between departments.

A recent meeting between Education and Science Minister Galin Tzokov and Ukrainian Ambassador to Bulgaria Olesya Ilashchuk shed light on the increasing influx of Ukrainian students into Bulgarian universities. The Education Ministry announced that this academic year has seen a record enrollment of 1,049 Ukrainian students, primarily comprising representatives of Bulgarian communities.

Following the decision of the Education Ministry, teachers will teach students how to deal with peer bullying and cyberbullying within the scope of "School-Based Social Responsibility Studies," taught as an elective course in secondary schools.

The new curriculum will teach students what peer bullying is, what to do if they encounter bullying and how to behave to avoid being bullied.

A scheme to invite academics from foreign universities to teach in Greece has attracted just nine applications since being launched on April 21, mainly as a result of lackluster interest from local businesses to support the plan.

Deputy Tourism Minister Elena Rapti addressed a conference at the Education Ministry on the work of the Study in Greece agency, which aims to internationalize Greece's university studies, titled "Reflecting on the Past - Gazing into the Future of Higher Education."

Nearly 20 million students and more than 1.2 million teachers have started the first mid-term break of the 2023-2024 academic year.

A large number of primary, middle and high school students on Nov. 10 attended their last classes before the short break that will last on Nov. 17.

OECD officials will reportedly study every aspect of the operation of Greece's educational structures and the evaluation system to promote broad changes.

The Education Ministry is working on a comprehensive curriculum amendment that will encompass all grade levels, aiming to simplify course contents, minister Yusuf Tekin has announced.