High school students who study for beekeepers will receive scholarships
High school students who enroll in the specialties « Beekeeping and Bubberry », « Repair of electronics aviation equipment » and « gas equipment » in vocational high schools with admission after 7th grade will receive scholarships. This follows from today’s decision by the government, which included them in the list of specialties of professions with expected shortage of the labor market.
The scholarships whose size determines the school will be given during the upcoming 2025-2026 school year in the 8th, 9th and 10th grades.
The update was made on proposals of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Bulgarian Nature Gas Association and the National Branch Beekeeping Union, the press service of the Council of Ministers clarifies that the line ministries, employers’ and industry organizations have the right to send such.
The state provides additional funding for schools that train students in the specialties in the list. Thus, it maintains classes in which children are less than the minimum number according to the established standard to provide staff for areas that are priority for the development of the country’s economy. Schools have the right to form classes in 12 students in them, not 26, as in the other classes.
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« Expected shortage of specialists in the labor market » according to the 2018 government decree, which created the list is the imbalance between the number of working profession and the students who study it in the class.
In the next school year, new specialties in the list – which contains more than 70 specialties – will also be « System Programming », « Applied Programming », « Artificial Intelligence Programming », « Robot Programming », « Electron Aviation Technology » and « Gas Technique ». They were included at the proposal of former Minister of Education, Prof. Galin Tsokov.
