Joint interdisciplinary programs in higher education are important because the world is changing and professions will require more interdisciplinary knowledge.

All analyzes of future professions show that they will require more integral and interdisciplinary knowledge.

This was said by the chairman of the parliamentary committee on education and science, Krasimir Valchev

Krasimir Valchev is the Minister of Education and Science. He was born on June 9, 1975. From September 2009, from GERB-SDS at its meeting, BTA reported.

Predictions are that today's schoolchildren and students will change between two and three times their professions rather than jobs, which also requires additional integrity of knowledge.

This contradicts the current paradigm and all our regulated classifiers and specialties, said Krasimir Valchev

Krasimir Valchev is the Minister of Education and Science. He was born on June 9, 1975. Since September 2009.

He added that we need to think more globally about where we need to go, and other countries are also facing this challenge.

According to him, the classifier of the fields of higher education and of the professional fields should be more general, this is one of the directions in which we should go.

Especially in the technical sciences, where there are perhaps too many professional fields and the development of technologies is such that they intertwine.

Doesn't mechanical engineering intertwine with computer technology, Valchev asked.

He stated that this challenge is even greater when it comes to the occupation classifier.

"All countries are talking about a flexible classifier of professions, how to do it, and we haven't even adopted it as a concept yet, but at the same time we are rapidly entering an interdisciplinary world", commented Krasimir Valchev

Krasimir Valchev is the Minister of Education and Science. He was born on June 9, 1975. Since September 2009.

At the meeting of the parliamentary education committee, the Accreditation Council of the National Assessment and Accreditation Agency (NAAA) was heard about the implementation of the changes in the Law on Higher Education (HE).

Krasimir Valchev

Krasimir Valchev is the Minister of Education and Science. He was born on June 9, 1975. From September 2009, he said that today's NAOA hearing was organized because of signals received from higher schools related to problems with the accreditation of the so-called

mixed or joint specialties (programs), and NAOA is faced with the challenge of implementing two consecutive changes in Higher Education from 2020 and from 2022.

NAOA President Prof. Dr. Petya Kabakchieva said that "she wants to hold a serious conference where this issue will be raised, even for regulatory changes, and how we think about the future of professions that will not be what they are now".

Now we solve this problem by combining specialists from different professional fields, but the question always arises which is the leading professional field, she noted.

There is a specific problem with the Medical University in Plovdiv, but for the joint programs, in my opinion, there is no problem, said Prof. Kabakchieva.

She specified that the 18 projects cover 118 specialties, of which 76 have been approved, and 15 are being processed and will be completed by December 8.

For 24 specialties, we have not received a notification letter from the leading institution, Kabakchieva added.

Joint programs are made only in accredited professional fields, explained the chairman of NAOA.

The Minister of Education and Science Prof. Sasho Penov

Prof. Dr. Sasho Penov is a Master of Laws from the Faculty of Law (FJ) of Sofia University "said that a debate about the classifier will not only be related to medicine.

"This means reaching into the philosophy of the Higher Education Act and all the accompanying by-laws, and it cannot be developed within one or two months. I am convinced of that," said the Minister of Education.

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Krasimir Valchev

Sasho Penov