site.btaBulgaria Supports 401 Sunday Schools in 43 Countries with Over EUR 8 Mln in Funding - Deputy Education Minister

There are 401 Bulgarian Sunday schools in 43 countries on six continents, with nearly 40,000 students and over EUR 8 million in state funding, said the Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Prof. Dr. Eng. Senya Terzieva, at the official opening of the 19th edition of the Annual Conference of the Association of Bulgarian Schools Abroad in the auditorium of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski".  She described this as "one of the most successful policies of the Bulgarian state for working with the diaspora". 

The policy of supporting Sunday schools continues and we hope that the amount with which they will be financed will be increased next year, the Deputy Minister of Education said. 

Prof. Terzieva said the various panels of the forum will focus on the future development of Bulgarian Sunday schools abroad. These topics include new Bulgarian language curricula, the development of e-learning, teacher qualification, new educational resources, the exchange of good practices between schools around the world and international recognition.

She announced that currently, through various state-funded programs, Bulgarian universities have become equal partners, as a scientific and educational structure for higher education training. We are open to accepting graduates of European schools and outside Europe to become part of the higher education system in Bulgaria, said the Deputy Minister.