For anyone familiar with Bulgarian reality and with the education system and practice, it is self-evident — “with unquestionable clarity” (Kant) — that educational integration in its many dimensions is essential for overcoming inequalities, achieving the broadest possible access to education and improving its quality. Equally self-evident is the need to achieve real progress in […]
The Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance Amalipe is a non-governmental organisation working on intercultural education, educational integration and school education since 2002. At present, the organisation coordinates a network of 259 schools throughout the country (the majority of which have a high concentration of vulnerable groups), as well as an informal network of more […]
The situation and rights of the Roma in Bulgaria and Europe on the one hand, and of the indigenous peoples in Peru and Latin America, are very different. Not so much because in one case we are talking about a people who came to Europe (especially Western Europe) at a relatively late stage, and in […]
On the eve of the Bulgarian Education and Culture Day, 24 May, the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) published for public consultation a draft set of amendments to the Law on Pre-school and School Education (LPSE). The draft contains numerous clarifying points and sub-paragraphs, as well as several broader themes. Among these are desegregation, […]
Author: Deyan Kolev Continuing some old commitments as well as including new ones – in preschool, school, and university education, are the main priorities in the announced program of the Rosen Zhelyazkov Cabinet. They sound abstract, but are consensual and supported by most parties, the trade and employers’ unions, and the non-governmental organizations working in […]
Necessary changes in the Law on preschool and school education, in the Ordinance on financing, the introduction of the profession of “educational mediators”, the need for a systematic project to change the attitudes of parents and many other issues were discussed by deputies from the Commission for Education and Science, representatives of all RIE, MES […]
A sincere conversation about the range of educational segregation, the ways to overcome it and the overall development of school education in the coming months and years, took place during the National Conference “State of Educational Integration: From Segregation to an Ethnically Mixed Environment”. The first panel of the Conference was attended by the Minister […]
Deyan Kolev Continuation and expansion of key education policies from previous years, completely innovative policy solutions on other important thematic areas such as delegated school budgets and quality of education, and lack of explicit commitments to topics such as intercultural education, educational integration, school segregation, etc. This can be seen in the thematic Annexes to […]