This year’s festival was a grand spectacle of cultural diversity, featuring a magnificent array of performances, traditional music, and cuisine, representing over 40 nations.
The rector of the University of Telecommunications and Post Professor Miglena Temelkova, PhD, is the new Chairperson of the Council of Rectors of the Universities in Bulgaria. She won the election’s second round with 27 votes, outperforming the other candidate, Professor Dimitar Dimitrov, Rector of the University of National and World Economy, who won 19 votes.
Impressively, the last time when a woman chaired the organisation was 25 years ago - Professor Yordanka Kuzmanova, the then rector of the Agrarian University in Plovdiv.
What should our children study today in order to be successful adults tomorrow? The question is extremely important – and nobody can give a precise answer. Our lives, technologies and society are changing too fast. Established professions are going extinct and are being replaced with new ones, which have been completely unknown before. AI is permeating all spheres of life, bringing the general feel of uncertainty to a whole new level. How, in this case, can one be prepared for the future?
Together with the Jacobs University Bremen SIT presents a number of Bachelor and Master programs in Bulgaria, available at their Swiss and German campuses. Meanwhile „SIT Programming School“, the schoolchildren educational program by SIT, will start in Bulgaria this autumn.
New Bachelor and Master programs in the field of Computer sciences
There is no doubt that the best investment is the one in education. And if it was once a privilege, available to few, now it is a fundamental right that everyone can and should take advantage of – for the sake of their development and of a better future.