Todor Tanev

Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, arrives Thursday in Sofia to meet with President Rosen Plevneliev, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, and Education Minister Todor Tanev.

The school year starts today for nearly 758 000 students and 68 891 teachers in 2564 schools across Bulgaria.

September 15, 2015 is the first day of school for around 65 000 first-graders, according to reports of Bulgaria's Education Minister, Todor Tanev, as cited by dnevnik.bg.

Bulgarian Education Minister Todor Tanev announced on Friday that the salaries of teachers were likely to increase in the autumn.

Tanev reminded that the increase in teachers' salaries always happened in the autumn and expressed hope that this year would not make a difference, he said in an interview for private NOVA TV.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and nine ministers will respond to questions of MPs at the regular parliamentary control on Friday.

Borisov will respond to two questions, the first one being on the promise of the government, stated in the programme declaration and the governance programme, for holding key social reforms.

President (2002-2012) Georgi Parvanov, who was reelected Sunday as Chair of his ABV party, has insisted that Bulgaria's cabinet should undergo certain changes

Bulgarians deem most successful the government policies connected to infrastructure (38%), culture (29%) and foreign policy (25%).

Meanwhile, the most unsuccessful areas have been the income policy (9%), followed by economics, social activities and education (each with 17% stated disapproval).

Last year's Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum placed Bulgaria 54th. Compared to countries roughly the same size (in terms of population) as Israel for instance, this is not quite an optimistic result, given that Israel came 27th in the ranking.

Minister Todor Tanev has pledged a new Education Act instead of patchy amendments and insertions to the existing one.

In a Sunday interview for the Bulgarian National Television, he claimed that the main problem of universities was the creation of unemployment.

Education Minister Todor Tanev has backed amendments to the Education Act aimed at depriving specialized higher education institutions of the title university.

Tanev, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency, suggested that a number of existing provisions were outdated.

The Minister of Education Todor Tanev has compared the content of the schoolbooks to that of a powder keg.

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