Literacy

Education fails to keep up with the pace of technology development, Safer Internet Centre coordinator Georgi Apostolov told Focus Radio.

In February, a campaign dubbed "Mobilization for Literacy" was launched to teach adults how to read and write. Since its launch, 504,985 women and 59,466 male have attended the program in over the past eight months.

The education level of women farmers has risen significantly in recent years, according to a report commissioned by the General Secretariat of Gender Equality.

More specifically, 35.3 percent completed secondary education, compared with 13.2 percent in 1998, 18 percent in 2003 and 26.6 percent in 2008, and 4 percent have university degrees, compared with just 1 percent in 1998.

Balkan countries are the most vulnerable in Europe to the "fake" news and post-truth phenomenon, a new report says, blaming media that are highly controlled by the state or business interests, educational deficiencies and low overall trust levels in society.

Those are the main conclusions of the Media Literacy Index compiled by the Open Society Institute, OSI, in Sofia.

By 2020 95% of jobs will require at least minimal digital skills. In Bulgaria, however, the percentage of illiterates is really high. This is what the MP Momchil Nekov told the BNT, who recently presented a report to the EP on the subject.

Microsoft has been testing a number of text-to-speech features in Word over the years, but it's finally found a solid way to implement the feature. Reports TheVerge. 

From 2018 there will be an increase in the number of psychologists in schools, Education Minister Krasimir Valchev told a press conference, quoted by FOCUS News Agency.

The president of the Aydın Doğan Foundation, Hanzade Doğan Boyner, has said the foundation aims to support the education of girls and their participation in the workforce.

The number of illiterate women in Turkey is five times higher than the number of illiterate men, according to statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK). 

While 5.4 percent of the overall population aged 25 and over is illiterate, this rate was 1.8 percent for men and 9 percent for women in 2015.

In the school year when computer science will become a compulsory subject in schools, Fund B92 launched its national campaign Battle for Knowledge.

Initially, the "Code-Play" program will deal with the development of computer literacy among primary school students - thanks to robots.