Ministry of Education and Science

The teams of the informal organizations "Science in the Crisis" and "Parents for Safe Education" strongly oppose the decision of the Ministry of Education and Science, for children from 1st to 4th grade to return to attendance in schools and kindergartens from January 4, 2021.

Bulgarian Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva organized an online meeting with Minister of Education Krasimir Valchev on the challenges in remote learning.

Teachers, parents and representatives of parent organizations ask different questions to Minister Valchev related to online education.

The Bulgarian Minister of Health believes that COVID-19 tests for parents and students should be free in case of an infected child in class. He said this at a briefing in Dobrich, held together with the Chief State Health Inspector Assoc. Prof. Angel Kunchev.

The Commission for Combating Corruption and Confiscation of Illegally Acquired Property filed a complaint with the Minister of Education and Science Krassimir Valchev, the Commission announced.

As of today, the "Prosveta" Publishing Group provides free access to the full electronic versions of its textbooks in all subjects from the first to the tenth grade, enriched with additional interactive educational resources. Thus, nearly 700,000 Bulgarian students will be able to use all 33,000 digital resources of the publishing house for their preparation.

Classes in 1,477 schools in 16 Bulgaria's regions have been suspended over flu absences. The classes are expected to resume on 10 February, said the press office of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Classes in 7 districts were partially suspended.

School have been reopened in the regions of Burgas, Vidin, Kyustendil, Sofia City and Haskovo.

Today, February 4, the educational process in 2124 schools and nine kindergartens in 19 districts of the country has been suspended, the Ministry of Education and Science announced.

Twenty-one Bulgarian regions have been affected by this season's flu outbreak and 2079 have suspended classes, said the press office of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Classes have already been cancelled in the regions of Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Varna, Gabrovo, Dobrich, Kardzhali, Kyustendil, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Smolyan, Sofia-city, Sofia-region, Haskovo and Yambol.

19 Bulgarian Regions have been affected by this season's flu outbreak and 1,895 schools and two kindergartens have suspended classes, said the press office of the Ministry of Education and Science.

As of today, a flu epidemic has been declared in the region of Stara Zagora.

The Ministry of Education and Science is preparing a Strategy for Higher Education after 2020, which will try to reduce the absence of students at state universities, and most likely resort to the introduction of dual-level education in secondary education, Minister Krasimir Valchev explained during a round table "Higher Education in Bulgaria - Challenges and Solutions" organized by Sofia Unive