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Bulgarian parents demand cancelation of National External Assessment after 4th and 10th grade

Bulgaria's Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva
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Bulgaria’s Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva recommended that this country’s Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev cancel the National External Assessment after the 4th and the 10th grade. Diana Kovacheva refers to complaints and petitions submitted by parents to the national Ombudsman. Diana Kovacheva also emphasizes the problem concerning digital inequality, as some Bulgarian students face shortage of electronic devices and Internet.

"The citizens note that the students have studied remotely for more than 5 months which has affected their education", Ombudsman Kovacheva writes in her letter to Bulgaria’s Minister of Education, BTA reports.




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