Educational mediators play a key role in re-enrolling and retaining children in school and in building trust between schools and parents. This was emphasized by the Minister of Education and Science, Krasimir Valchev, during the “Mediator of the Year” award ceremony, held at the Ministry of Education and Science on January 14. The event was […]
On October 22, 2025, the Tenth National Scientific and Practical Conference for the Dissemination of Good Practices in the Field of Educational Integration and Inclusion, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science, Prof. Dr. Yosif Nunev and Dr. Yanka Takeva, Chairwoman of the Bulgarian Teachers’ Union (BTU), launched in Velingrad. Among the participants on […]
The Managing Authority of the Education Program has published an Indicative Annual Work Program for 2025. It contains the operations that the program plans to announce/implement during the current year, who will be eligible to apply, at what value, and under what deadlines. What does the Managing Authority foresee for 2025? Practice from previous years, […]
A change in the Regulation on Financing, Art. 52a to introduce a standard for an institution will be made this year. I understand the arguments for easing the sanction by suspending child allowances for an entire year, as we will limit them to three months. We will look for ways to purchase more school buses. […]
On the occasion of the International Roma Day on April 8th, President Rumen Radev, the Ambassadors of the USA, Great Britain, France, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, India, Unicef for Bulgaria, the Minister of Education Prof. Galin Tsokov, Head of the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy Ginka Mashova, met with […]
Since the beginning of August, the Ministry of Education has formed two new working groups. One of them is preparing a Standard for the Quality Assessment of Education and the other one – normative changes to facilitate the linguistic integration of children and students whose mother language is different from Bulgarian. They include representatives of […]
The Ministry of Education and Science will make a change in the Funding Ordinance, which will allow schools and kindergardens to receive a separate resource for the appointment of mediators, social workers and other support staff. This change will happen by the end of June and this year’s budget is secured. Thus, all schools and […]
The Department of Education appreciates the work of educational mediators in keeping students in classrooms. However, at this point in time the MoE is considering NOT continuing the National Support Programme for Educational Mediators but leaving schools to find their own way to cover their salaries. In this situation, most of the 940 mediators currently […]
Amalipe Center urges the Ministry of Education and Science and the Agency for Intelligent Growth Operational Program to extend the Support for Success project for another school year, increase the salaries of educational mediators and provide a bonus to educational mediators who work at the first line during the closure of schools in December 2020. […]