Bulgaria’s Ministry of Education starts to train religious education teachers

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Education and Science starts to train teachers for teaching religious education. This emerged during an international conference on the topic held in Bulgaria’s second largest city of Plovdiv on 15^th of November.

The subject "Religion" will be studied as part of the extended and additional training programme from the first to the 12th grade. The procedure for writing textbooks and curricula has already began.

Kosta Kostov, Chief Expert, Ministry of Education and Science (MES): In December, 60 primary teachers will be trained to undergo one-year training and receive an additional qualification as teachers in religion. The training for these 60 teachers will be paid by the MES, under a national qualification programme.