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Ministry of Education and Science is proposing online final school exams

Galin Tsokov
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Holding final school exams online – this is one of the proposals from the package put forward by the Ministry of Education and Science for amendments to the pre-school and school education act, Minister of Education Galin Tsokov has announced. He added that as of next year, the testing of 4th graders for reading and mathematical literacy will take place using computers, as is the world tendency.

The ministry’s proposals affect different spheres of education – kindergartens, early childhood education and care, children aged 3, problems connected with the qualification of the pedagogical specialists, career development, learning content, skill formation and competences. 



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