Students from the 1st to the 4th grade will not wear masks in class. Masks are not mandatory for preschool groups, the Ministry of Education has announced. Masks remain mandatory everywhere in school buildings for all other students, as well as for..
Distance learning has deepened inequality in education, brought down the level of knowledge in children and is threatening to increase the number of children dropping out of school. This has happened despite the efforts and the rapid adaptation by..
Eight of the 245 Bulgarian schools abroad (listed by the Ministry of Education for the 2021/2022 academic year) are named after revolutionary poet Hristo Botev, whom we commemorate on 2 June. Today, schoolchildren from the Bulgarian schools in..
As of today, 7th grade, 8th grade and 10th grade students are to attend in-person classes at least until the end of the month, together with 6th grade and 11th grade students, reads a regulation of Bulgaria’s health authorities. 5th grade and 9th..
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Education and Science has started to implement a project under the Operational Programme "Science and Education for Smart Growth", aimed to prevent students from dropping out of school during distance learning. The project..
As of 12 March school-goers from the 5th to the 12th grade in Sofia and in the regions of Pazardzhik, Kyustendil and Burgas are switching to distance learning. The same measure was imposed on 11 March in the regions of Vratsa, Yambol and..
From March 12 until March 26, all students from 5th to 12th grade in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia are to switch over to distance learning. In-person classes in universities will be suspended. The extracurricular activities will be held online as well. All..
560 Bulgarian teachers are currently infected with Covid-19. Their number is three times lower as compared to November last year, when 1,600 teachers had Covid-19. 90% of the teachers who voiced willingness to receive a vaccine were already inoculated..
704 applications for distance learning have been submitted to the Ministry of Education by parents of 1 st to 4 th grade children. In-person schooling is to resume, as of 4 January, for children up to the 4 th grade. Schools will continue..
Between 35,000 and 40,000 children will not be effectively involved in online schooling. The reasons are the lack of devices and access to the web , but also the lack of motivation for education. More than 10% of children do not attend school..
