● Immigrants;
● Women on maternity leave;
● Disabled.
⇒ Parents, employers (both users and participants in career guidance).The National program for the development of school education and pre-school preparation
(2006 – 2015) provides for the introduction of a career development system. The possible
solutions could be found along two major lines:
● In horizontal terms: The opportunity for development will be provided through
the differentiation of the position of “teacher”. The introduction of five new
positions is planned: “junior teacher”, “teacher”, “senior teacher”, “chief teacher”
and “methodologist”. The horizontal career development will be governed by the
accumulation of a specific length of work experience and by passing forms of
obligatory training and assessment of results.
● In vertical terms: The changes are primarily related to modifying the requirements
for occupying administrative positions in the system of public education –
principals, sub-principals, experts and heads of regional education inspectorates,
members of MES administration.With the view of improving information services and career guidance in the system of sec-
ondary education, the following steps are planned: setting up a national network comprising
28 Information and Career Guidance Centres, establishment of a national data base for
life-long education and training, development of bilateral and multi-partite projects for infor-
mation services and career guidance of people with special educational needs, formation
of a wide network of divisions (state, municipal and private ones) providing career guidance
and consulting services, introduction of a career guidance and consulting module in each
form of training.
In 2006 the National Centre of Pedagogy (NCP) together with U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) (http://www.usaid.gov/) within the framework of the “Labour Market”
project (LMP) (http://www.bglabor.org/ signed an agreement for developing human resourc-
es and a system of career guidance in the secondary vocational education in Bulgaria.
The main objective of the agreement is that NCP, jointly with LMP shall lay the foundations
of a system for providing career guidance services and career development for secondary
and vocational school students, as well as a mechanism for collecting, processing and us-
ing information about the need for personnel with practical skills and abilities at the labour
market. The system’s smooth functioning shall be ensured by the involvement of career
guidance specialists who will complete a special training course designed to prepare them