2024-08-22 04:02:27
There are many important educational policies and they are leading, stated in their position the Trade Union “Education” to KT “Support”, with chairman Dr. Yulian Petrov.
Among them is the “Quality of Bulgarian Education” policy, as it is said that the obligations to the student to comply with the school rules can be upgraded, with motivation and sanctions for parents for their responsibilities, with partnership with the teacher, with the new opportunities for education with artificial intelligence with a leading role of the teacher, with the multiplication and financing of innovations and innovative schools.
“The Priority Funding for Education policy, if not hypocritical, is clearly not true. Not because of that 3.9% of GDP for education. Not because of the “high” teacher salaries, which are currently 105% of the average gross labor salary (SBRZ) for the country. Not because of the lack of financial responsibility towards the Bulgarian municipalities, nothing that the educational institutions are mainly municipal. The financial deficits of schools and kindergartens do not bode well,” the position says. .
We must reach 6% of the GDP within four years, if there is a responsible political management of Bulgaria, the union states. According to him, the teacher’s salary should become 150% of the SBRZ for the country from January 1, 2025. It is mandatory that this be included in the Preschool and School Education Act.
To guarantee financial resources for the maintenance of educational institutions in order to eliminate the dominant dependence on the number of students in the delegated budget. This is how we will stop closing schools, say the union.
And they insist “to stop the draining of the budgets of educational institutions through institutional state or municipal tricks, such as a garbage tax, capital expenditures taken from the money for educational activities of students, the numerous acts of “Fire Safety”, RZI and others, which always contradict of the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Science (MES), but they do not bring order”.
The policy of “Attracting and retaining young pedagogical specialists” and sounding very attractive is traditionally unsuccessful. There are enough young, graduated teachers in all specialties, which is wonderful, because we kept the pedagogical specialties in higher schools and even structured a “fast” track for teachers. There are teachers, but many of them lack the desire to become teachers. And those who gather courage and enter an educational institution, no matter that they are called “specialists”, do not always endure to stay. 70% of them do not pass the first three years because of the numerous non-teaching duties or paperwork and because of the “brutal pressure from institutions and parents”, the position states.
According to the trade union “Education”, the policy for “Election of directors of educational institutions” is the most controversial for the last 30 years, but this does not make it successful.
The “Authority and Autonomy of the Bulgarian Teacher” policy is not a clearly defined educational policy, but it is the basis of all others, writes BTA.
“The union “Education” states that Bulgarian education has had a unifying function for centuries. This is an important message from history, how with the polar differences of the parties after the Liberation and the beginning of the 20th century, the education of children and their future has always been a bridge between differences “Let the new politicians and deputies, who we will soon elect, stop using Bulgarian teachers and stop thinking that the most convenient sphere for political populism is Bulgarian education,” the position reads.