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Up to 30% will be the increase of funding for schools and kindergartens from January 1, reports Darik. 

This is what Minister of Education Krasimir Valchev said during a meeting of the parliamentary commission on education and science. He specified, however, that 30% is the maximum increase that will be received only by the smallest schools in the most remote areas.

Turkey's Education Minister has given the authority to each governor's office in the country to determine school start time in the mornings on their own, asking them to take their province's specific climate and geographical conditions into account so that students can make more use of the daylight.

Turkey's Education Minister has given the authority to each local governor's office in the country to determine school start time in the mornings on their own, asking them to take their province's specific climate and geographical conditions into account so that students can make more use of the daylight.

By joining forces with UNESCO, Slovenia is aspiring to become a leading country in this field. Next week it will host an international congress on the topic.

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School bells will be ringing across the country on Monday morning to mark the start of the new academic year, with the customary blessing ceremony.

A compulsory and free pre-primary education should be introduced for 4- and 5-year-old children, Ombudswoman Maya Manolova said during a discussion on ethnic integration in Asenovgrad.

She estimated the associated costs at nearly BGN 19 million.

A kindergarten in the Aegean province of İzmir was closed down on Aug. 18 after a three-year-old toddler died inside the school's shuttle.   

Alperen Sakin was reportedly forgotten inside the shuttle after arriving at his kindergarten in İzmir's Çiğli district on Aug. 15. After several hours, officials from the kindergarten found him fainted in the shuttle.

A month before the start of the new school year in Bulgaria, school directors are looking for mathematics teachers, computer science, language teachers, primary school teachers and teachers for day-to-day training, as well as teachers for pre-school education.

''We are working on dropping the restrictions for the enrolment of students from Macedonia'', Minister of Education Krasimir Valchev told a press conference, quoted by BGNES.

A group of Turkish biology associations have reacted against a recently announced curriculum, saying they are disappointed with the fact that evolution has been left out.