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Bulgaria's Education Minister Sergey Ignatov has championed a new career orientation system targeting first-graders. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria's Education Ministry is starting a new project for career development funded with EU money that will encompass students from 1st to 12th grade, Education Minister Sergey Ignatov announced.
According to Ignatov, his institution has "decided to start creating a system for career orientation during the entire period of school education."
A total of BGN 10 M (EUR 5 M) of EU funding will be used for the project entitled System for Career Orientation in School Education that will last 26 months, and is supposed to include 466 000 students in the capitals of the 28 Bulgarian districts.
Some 150 consultants trained for the project together with 780 school counselors are said to be helping the young Bulgarian kids with their education and career choices.
The system is also to provide an online portal with information about Bulgarian high schools and universities as well as aptitude tests to help students pick their careers, targeting the students from 1-4th grade, 5-8th grade, and 9-12th grade in three age groups, the Education Minister explained.
In his words, the career development system will provide the kids with information about the professions in their homeplace as well as the skills and knowledge they need for these professions, in accordance with the labor market.
A total of 205 professional fields with 480 types of jobs are said to have already been included in the new career development system; each of them will feature its own description to help students understand the requirements for it.
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