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Number of state-funded first-year students to decrease in 2017

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In 2017 the number of state-funded first-year university students will decrease by 8% as compared to 2016, Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet decided on Wednesday. Thus, together with the amendments made in 2016 in that sphere, the ratio between first-year students and high-school graduates would amount to 62% and equal the one registered in 2010. However, reception in subjects such as pedagogics, mathematics and information technologies will be higher, Bulgaria’s caretaker Minister of Education and Science Nikolai Denkov explained.




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