Education

This year 15 schools are closed and other 16 will be reorganized, the Minister of Education and Science Mrs. Aneliya Klisarova specified.

On February 14, the NNC launched a competition for schoolchildren projects “My participation – a right or on obligation” under the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science “Participate and modify”.

Final Meeting of Program “UROK – Strengthen and develop the organizational capacity”, organized for members of the National Network for Children.

Over 110 principals of schools in Northern Bulgaria participate in the seminars How to prepare school programs for dropout prevention. They are held in Lyaskovets in two stages: 2 – 4 July for Northwestern Bulgarian schools and from 4 to 6 July for those in Northeastern Bulgaria.

By Boyan Zahariev, program director at at Open Society Institute – Sofia.

150 BGN is the one-time aid for the pupils

National Network for Children and in particular the Report ” School Card 2012: Assessment of the implementation of state commitments to children in Bulgaria “, prepared by NNC, was presented as an example for good practice in the Annual Report of the OAK Foundation, 2011.

The second edition of the International forum The Education of Tomorrow, organized by Les Francas, was held from 28th June to 2nd July, 2012 in Toulouse, France. Bulgaria was represented among 57 other countries by the “Social practices in the community” Foundation.

The state fund “Agriculture” (SFA) did the consecutive payment within the scheme “School fruit” for the school year 2011/2012, announced from the fund.

The reasons for the early leave are mainly ethnical, economical and inability to cope with the school material, explained experts from the Economic and Social Council.

The first of its kind Youth Road Map for development of Bulgaria, created by the winners in the programme “Strong start with Postbank”, was presented officially on 18th April.

Representatives of Samsung and psychologists from the National Network for Children support the students from 10 schools in Bulgaria for their professional orientation.

The winner of the annual scholarship “Hadji Mina Pashov” will be the twelvegrader from PMG “Dobri Chintulov” Peter Karazaprianov.

57 of them wanted to go to another school and received certificates for movement however the new schools haven’t confirmed that the children were enrolled there.

Thirty children with impaired vision from the whole country will be supported during the next two years for their education and choice of education.

The institutions in Bulgaria received annual score AVERAGE (3) for 2011 regarding their commitments to children and families. This was announced during the launch of the National Network for Children “School report 2012: Assessment of the state commitments to children in Bulgaria”

‘REPORT CARD 2012: Assessment of The Implementation of State Commitments Towards The Children of Bulgaria’ is a unique report by the NNC – a full analysis of Bulgarian institutions work in key child-related areas – Child Rights, Family Environment, Education, Child Healthcare and Juvenile Justice.

They will monitor the finances and the work of the director as well as the admission of children. The educational ministry will try to introduce more effective public control over the financial activities of the schools.

The students from 1 till 12 grade will also study health education. This is envisaged by draft amendments in the legislative framework prepared by the Ministry of Education.

The municipalities want from the state around 50 million leva additionally, most of which will go for children’s support money. This was announced by the executive director of the municipalities association Ginka Chavdarova in front of “Mediapool”.