INCOMPLETE SECONDARY SCHOOLS

State Schools

The State supports seven schools of three

classes for boys and two of six classes for girls. The curriculum of these

schools is the same as that of the corresponding classes in the high

schools.  

The conditions for the appointment and the dismissal of teachers are the same as in the high schools. The salaries are also the same, with this sole difference that the State contributes onehalf, the other half being paid by the communes, at whose charge is the general maintenance of the primary schools.

All the schools belonging to this category

are administered by directors, appointed by the Ministry of Public Instruction,

who must’ fulfil the same conditions as the directors of the high schools. The

only exception to this rule are the schools which have only one class. As

regards their administration, these schools are assimilated to the primary

schools.

PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS

(a) Pedagogical Schools for Boys There are five pedagogical schools for all the Principality. These are institutions for secondary education, whose object is to train teachers for the primary schools. The course of studies is divided into four classes, and lasts four years.

A school comprising three classes is

attached to every training college, of which it forms the lower department.

Besides, there are in every pedagogical school four model elementary divisions,

in which the practical training of the future teachers takes place.

The following are subjects taught in the

training school:

(1)Religious instruction;

(2) Bulgarian;

(3) Moral psychology and pedagogics ;

(4) school practice;

(5) mathematics;

(6) civic instruction and political economy;

(7) history and geography;

(8) physics and chemistry;

(9) rural economy;

(10) hygiene and popular medicine;

(11) natural science;

(12) Russian ;

(13) drawing and calligraphy;

(14) singing and violin;

(15) gymnastics;

(16) manual work.

The number of students who are admitted

every year in the first form of these schools is fixed by a ministerial decree.

The candidates must pass a competitive examination before a special commission

which is appointed by the Ministry of Public Instruction. To this examination

are admitted boys who are not younger than fourteen years and not older than

seventeen, and who also have passed with success and good conduct at least

three classes of a high school.