Three Deputies Enter Bulgaria Education Ministry

Bulgaria's new Education Minister Yordanka Fandakova has assured that there will be no lay-offs in the major directorates of the department. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's new Education Minister Yordanka Fandakova presented her three deputies on Thursday, confirming earlier reports about their number and names.

These are Svetlana Lomeva, executive director of the Bulgarian school for politics, Milka Kodzhabashieva, - former head of the directorate "Coordination and control in the secondary school" with the Education Ministry and Rumen Pranchov, deputy rector of the Technical University.

The funding under most of the programmes of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sciences, which were frozen in the wake of the financial crisis, will be unblocked, the minister announced on Thursday.

She assured that there will be no lay-offs in the major directorates of the department, but hinted at streamlining the lower-ranked staff.