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Bulgaria pushes new multi-million leva programme for first-grade education

Wed, Sep 01 2010 14:22 CET

byClive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria pushes new multi-million leva programme for first-grade education

Bulgaria's Education Minister, Sergei Ignatov.

Photo: Anelia Nikolova

Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on September 1 2010 a 7.5 million leva programme for full-time learning programmes for first-graders at state and municipal schools, according to a Government media statement.
 
Bulgarian-language mass-circulation daily 24 Chassa quoted Education Minister Sergei Ignatov as saying that first-graders who spend all day at school, provided that schools had enough rooms to allow this.
 
According to the report, from this year children would have to go to nursery schools from the age of five.
 
No new textbooks would be compiled this year and all free-of-charge teaching aids would be supplied by September 3. Bulgaria’s schools open for the new teaching year on September 15.
 

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