29/03/10
On a special press conference at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science the organisers of the campaign jointly with Minister Ignatov and the Member of Parliament – Monika Panayotova, announced yesterday, the 29th of March, the end of the campaign.
It started by the idea of MGERB in the middle of February and ended with the handing over of the collected suggestions and ideas from all over the country to the education minister. In total there were over 20 000 people who took part in the campaign, as the most active were those on Facebook - over 12 000. There were over 6 000 visits on the blog of the campaign, several thousand people were those who visited the mobile campaign tents on their locations. The idea of those suggestions is the best of them to lay in the base of the project Law for Higher Education.
In the continuation of a whole month the young people traveled through all 28 regional cities of the country and managed to collect over two thousand opinions and suggestions connected with the reform in higher education. The main problems, which are being pointed out are: the high amount of corruption in education, the high number of universities and the lack of connection between higher education and business. According to the words of Monika Panayotova – Chairwoman of MGERB, the connection between education and business, as well as realization is among the other worries of the university students: “Introducing a more practical part in education, this will give them a greater possibility to feel more confident and useful, graduating and starting their first job”. According to Minister Ignatov there is an exceptionally great need of the energy and pressure of young people in Bulgaria, especially regarding problems, which directly target them.
These, as well as many other problems in the sphere of higher education need to be solved with the new Law for Higher Education, which is being developed at the moment in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science.
On a special press conference at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science the organisers of the campaign jointly with Minister Ignatov and the Member of Parliament – Monika Panayotova, announced yesterday, the 29th of March, the end of the campaign.
It started by the idea of MGERB in the middle of February and ended with the handing over of the collected suggestions and ideas from all over the country to the education minister. In total there were over 20 000 people who took part in the campaign, as the most active were those on Facebook - over 12 000. There were over 6 000 visits on the blog of the campaign, several thousand people were those who visited the mobile campaign tents on their locations. The idea of those suggestions is the best of them to lay in the base of the project Law for Higher Education.
In the continuation of a whole month the young people traveled through all 28 regional cities of the country and managed to collect over two thousand opinions and suggestions connected with the reform in higher education. The main problems, which are being pointed out are: the high amount of corruption in education, the high number of universities and the lack of connection between higher education and business. According to the words of Monika Panayotova – Chairwoman of MGERB, the connection between education and business, as well as realization is among the other worries of the university students: “Introducing a more practical part in education, this will give them a greater possibility to feel more confident and useful, graduating and starting their first job”. According to Minister Ignatov there is an exceptionally great need of the energy and pressure of young people in Bulgaria, especially regarding problems, which directly target them.These, as well as many other problems in the sphere of higher education need to be solved with the new Law for Higher Education, which is being developed at the moment in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science.
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