Bulgaria

Partners situated in Bulgaria

None.

Bulgaria in a nutshell

Bulgaria (Bulgarian: България, transliterated: Balgariya), international transliteration Bălgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, Republika Balgariya) lies in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe. It borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the River Danube), Serbia and the Macedonia (the country) to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.

Bulgaria has a population of approximately 7.6 million.

Bulgaria functions as a parliamentary democracy under a unitary constitutional republic. It is a member of the European Union since 2007 and of NATO since 2004.

Bulgaria education system

The Bulgatian education system is divided into 4 stages:

1. primary
2. secondary
3. high school
4. university

Primary education

Schools are mandatory as an age of 6 or 7. Students learn some of the basic subjects like for example witting, reading maths, history etc.

Secondary School

The next step is secondary education where each student can choose some of the subjects.

In this stage of the educational process a student is prepared enough to decide what he or she is interested in. There are mathematical, social, economic schools. This stage is mandatory.

After graduating from secondary school most of the students take a special exam in order to study in special High School.

High School

This is the most important stage from the whole education system but it is not mandatory. Students cannot go to a university if they do not have the High School Certificate.

Students can choose in what kind of high school they want to study and they are obliged to take the corresponding exam. There are Maths High School(they are the most popular), Language High school and so on.

University

This is the biggest step for the whole education is the University.

In order to have the ability to study in university students must have the High School Certificate with good to excellent result and also they must take one or more exams. There are almost all kinds of universities - some of them are national and other are international-class. All the universities are require fees to be paid.

Private schools

In Bulgaia there are also some private schools but only a small percentage of the students can afford to study there because they are very expensive.

Higher education in Bulgaria

Universities in Bulgaria

(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Bulgaria)

1. American University in Bulgaria
2. National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts
3. Medical University of Pleven
4. Medical University of Plovdiv
5. Medical University of Sofia
6. Medical University of Varna
7. National Sports Academy
8. National Military University
9. Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy
10. New Bulgarian University
11. Plovdiv University
12. Rakovski Defence and Staff College
13. Rousse University
14. Sofia University
15. South-West University "Neofit Rilski"
16. Technical University of Sofia
17. Technical University of Sofia - Branch Plovdiv
18. Technical University of Varna
19. Technical University of Gabrovo
20. Trakia University - Stara Zagora
21. Veliko Tarnovo University
22. Civil engineering university "Lyuben Karavelov"
23. University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy
24. University of Forestry
25. University of National and World Economy
26. University of Economics Varna
27. University of Shumen Episkop Konstantin Preslavski
28. University of Mining and Geology

Bulgaria's HEIs in the information society

Towards the information society

Most information published in this entry, is based and kopied out of a document, received on 24/08/2009 from Assoc. Prof Angel Smrikarov, Vice Rector University of Rousse And Coordinator of Bulgarian Virtual University . This information is also available in Bulgarian at: http://www.bvu-bg.eu/index.php?Clip=proekt

In 1992 in response to the initiative for “Electronic education” of the European Commission, THE NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR CREATING VIRTUAL EDUCATION SPACE was started in Bulgaria. The Programme was funded chiefly by the Ministry of transport and Communications, as well as The Ministry of Education and Science. The PILOT VIRTUAL DEPARTMENT IN COMPUTING “JOHN ATANASSOV” was established, which a year later extended into the VIRTUAL FACULTY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES. At the end of 2004, under the initiative of the Chairmen of the Council of Rectors, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Higher Certifying Committee, The Union of Teachers, the Federation of the Unions of Scientists, the Bulgarian Association of information technologies and other educational, research and business organisations the BULGARIAN VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY was established. The founding agreement of this formation was signed by the Rectors of 37 Universities and the Directors of 27 Institutes of the BAS.

Virtual initiatives in HE in Bulgaria

Bulgarian Virtual University

The Bulgarian Virtual University (BVU) was launched in 2004 as a a nation-wide portal to Bulgarian higher education institutions and their online learning environments. It followed naturally from the establishment of a nationwide "iUniversity" programme, funded by Bulgaria's Ministry of Transportation and Communications, designed to help Bulgaria implement ICT more effectively in its educational processes. The iUniversity first established 100 computer laboratories for e-learning at Bulgarian universities and research institutions, then established the Bulgarian Virtual University.

References

Eurydice National Overview on European Educational Systems (2011)

Eurybase, The Information Database on Education Systems in Europe: The Education System in Bulgaria, 2005/06

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