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The establishment of the Viena Pedagogium was in response to the need of more accessible and better education. With its structure, education plans and focus on practice, the Academy became one of the leading educational institutions not only for Austria but for the whole of Europe. A large part of its success was due to its first principal, the great educator Friedrich Dittes famous for his reforms in the field of education. The influence of the Vienna Pedagogium is very significant for Bulgaria due to the fact that ten Bulgarian students successfully graduated from it and used their newly gained knowledge to help build up modern Bulgarian education system after the Liberation of Bulgaria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of an international project “Joy to Learn” with participants from Bulgaria, Germany, Japan, Spain, Poland, Romania and USA. The research focuses on joyful and happy situations for students connected to learning in school. It is important to obtain information on the thoughts, feelings, needs, desires, and the fears of the children. This would enable to promote the improvement of the learning process in terms of the student. The survey covered 300 students (from 1st to 8th grade) from Bulgaria. The results show that most of the students prefer to be active in the process of learning, however a presence of negative attitude towards learning in general was found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The results of the Bulgarian students from the international evaluation survey PISA and the opportunities to build core competencies and develop scientific literacy depend largely on legal documentation that determines the educational content and the technology of conducting the learning process. In this respect, the most important are the State Educational Requirements for Educational Content. Therefore, the present study analyses not only the PISA results, but also the correlation between the requirements of PISA and the requirements of the normative documents related to science education in Bulgarian schools. This will contribute to improving the quality of education in science, synchronizing it with the modern requirements and providing opportunities for realization of Bulgarian students on the international labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces awards given to Bulgarian students and scientists for their contributions to the development of information society, science and technology. Preslav Ivanov Nakov has been awarded as the first winner of John Atanassov award for the year 2003. Svetlin Nakov has been awarded as the second winner of John Atanassov award for contribution to the development of information society. Businessman Valentin Nikolaev Pavlov received a John Atanassov award for the year 2005.

This article presents the key results of the participation of Bulgaria in the EUROSTUDENT Ill (2005-2008 a.) international project. The main purpose of this study is to deliver comparative data about social dimension of higher education in Europe with a view of improving the living and studying conditions of the student life. The national survey among Bulgarian students is conducted by the Center for Control and Assessment of Quality in Education in 2007 and the data received are interpreted within the international context of the study. Current publication is focused on 16 socio-economical indicators about student life, structured in three main topics: access to higher education, labour market experience and international mobility. The comparative outlook of this European initiative enables making of a more precise analysis of students' support measures taken on national level, as well as to identify the obstacles before a better representation of different social groups in higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]