47.9% of young people in this country, aged 15 to 24, or over 315,000 lack basic secondary school skills, show data of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
Another 44.5% in the same age bracket, or more than 292,000, lack the digital skills needed in the modern world. According to Eurostat data from last year, 14% of young people in this country are living outside the employment, education or training system, while a Ministry of Education study shows that last year 120,000 children of school age are at risk of dropping out of the education system.
Tuesday will be a day of national mourning as an expression of solidarity with our closest neighbour in the Balkans, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov announced. A fire at a disco in the North Macedonian city of Kočani killed 59..
The fire in town of Kočani, which claimed the lives of 59 people and left 155 injured, was a foreseeable event, said Associate Professor Milen Ivanov, a security expert and former deputy rector of the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior...
Stefanija Alexova, a sophomore at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), is one of the victims of the Kočani fire. She was born in the Macedonian town, which became the scene of the tragedy where 59 people lost their lives and 155 were injured...
In response to the tragedy in North Macedonia, where more than 50 people lost their lives in a fire at a nightclub in the town of Kočani, Foreign..
Overnight, clouds over the north and east will bring brief showers. There will be light to moderate westerly winds which will increase in strength on..
The "Spartan" aircraft of the Bulgarian Air Force has left for North Macedonia on the orders of Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, the government's press..
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