The british embassy helps oxford university press expand their development programme in bulgaria

World news story THE BRITISH EMBASSY HELPS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS EXPAND THEIR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN BULGARIA An Embassy event celebrates the third year of the highly-successful OUP

programme of seminars for teachers in Bulgaria. This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government On 26 June 2013 UKTI Sofia organised an event

with OUP to celebrate three years since the start of their qualification programme for English language teachers. As a result of the programme, lecturers from the UK and other European

countries can share the latest developments in language training with their Bulgarian colleagues. The event, hosted by the British Ambassador Jonathan Allen, was attended by headmasters and

teachers from prestigious primary and secondary schools across the country, as well as representatives from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and the New Bulgarian University.

Lecturers from these institutions also took part in the seminars organised by OUP in several large Bulgarian cities throughout last year. HMA Jonathan Allen said: > The UK has an 

exceptional and deserved reputation for its education > – from developing training materials and technologies, through > English language training as well as the quality of education

> provided by our schools and universities. I am very pleased that > today we celebrate the third year in which Oxford University Press > runs a highly-successful programme of 

seminars for teachers in > Bulgaria – the Oxford Professional Development Programme. The British Embassy in Sofia and its Trade & Investment team have been working with OUP for over

three years. The embassy supported the expansion of Oxford Professional Development programme in Bulgaria and hosted their annual meetings as part of the programme. In addition, the embassy

worked together with OUP and other British textbook publishers in the area of liberalisation of the textbook market in Bulgaria. UKTI Sofia have discussed with Bulgarian institutions the

benefits, both for students and for the publishing industry, of a truly open and transparent market in Bulgaria. OUP is a department of the University of Oxford and the biggest university

publishing house in the world with more than 500 years of experience in publishing English language learning materials. SHARE THIS PAGE The following links open in a new tab * Share on

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