Bulgarian Association of Private Schools (BAPS)

Bulgaria

Chairman

Mrs. Maria Kamenova
Phone:+359 02 980 62 25
E-mail: info@bachu-bg.com

Members of MGM

Mrs. Maria Kamenova (President)
E-mail: info@bachu-bg.com

Dilyana Bozhinova(Vice chairman)
Headmistress of Private General Secondary School and Kindergarden "DRITA"
Valentina Dencheva
Headmistress of Private Kindergarten and German Language Schools "WEDA"
Ira Aneva
Manager of Private Kinder garden and German language Schools “WEDA”
Radka Karagyozova
Headmistress of private secondary school “ROERICH”
Sofka Mladenova
Headmistress of college “IKOM INTELEKT”

Contact

Mrs. Radka Karagyozova
E-mail: radka.karagiozova@gmail.com
Phone:+359 02 967 50 10

The Work

What is your mission and vision?

To be a public guarantee for quality education in the private schools.

Focus areas of the organization?
  • To unite private schools and to assist and support their successful development.
  • To stand for the rights of private schools and to protect their common interests in front of legislative, state and municipal authorities.
  • To work for the creation of better conditions for the development of private school education through active partnership with state and municipal authorities.
  • To initiate projects for improving the legislation in the field of school education.

About your own members of the national organization

      Description of the members of the organization:
  • Schools - individuals? – Schools – legal entities and private proprietors.
  • Which kind of schools? – pre-school; primary and secondary general education schools; high schools – language and professional (8-12 grade); professional colleges (after 12 grade).
  • How many members does your organization have? – 42
  • How many schools at which level?- Pre-school – 8- Primary and Secondary (1- 8 grade) – 7- Primary and Secondary (1-12 grade) – 6- High Schools – 10- Professional Colleges - 11
  • How many pupils are attending these schools? - 7450

Organizational policy

Which questions and tasks concerning the organization do you emphasize for the coming years?
  • Improving the quality of education in the private schools members of BAPS;
  • Strengthening the organizational capacity and increasing its influence among private school;
  • Activities for increasing the public prestige of private sector.

Current challenges

Which challenges are for the organization the most important currently?

Legislation to become adequate to the specific nature of private schools.

Information

In what information are you especially interested in?
  • Interaction between the private school sector and the state.
  • Forms and principles of subsidizing private schools through state budget.
  • Good practices of the National Associations of Independent Schools members of ECNAIS.

Contacts