Zemedelska profesionalna gimnaziya "Kliment Timiryazev" (ZPG), Bulgaria

The Vocational Secondary School Of Agriculture was established in 1957 and today it is the biggest educational institution in the area of vocational secondary education in Bulgaria with its 58-year old history. At present 625 students are being trained in different specialties, such as “Rural tourism”, “Organization of tourism and leisure activities”, “Performer of thermal procedures”, “Production of bread and bread wares”, “Agricultural economy”, “Control of quality and safety of food and drinks”, “Cook” (by dual training system),“Mechanization of agriculture”, “Floriculture” and “Agro ecologist”.

The pedagogical staff numbers 60 teachers of whom 42 senior teachers. Non-pedagogical staff-31 people or 91 altogether. All of them have the necessary qualifications and experience-teachers of foreign languages, general and special subjects, including in the area of agriculture, food technologies, economics and tourism. We are doing our best to look for various ways to enhance teaching quality, including through participation in EU educational projects and school partnerships.

With a view to the needs of fast developing tourist activities in Sandanski region and in order to meet the insatiable demand for professionals in tourist branch, our school introduced a specialty “Rural tourism”11 years ago. 5 years later another specialty was introduced-“Performer of thermal procedures”. Together with building hotels with very high star rating, small family business and rural tourism begin to develop. Our aim is students to set up and manage such tourist places of interest.

Contacts: mail@zpg-sandanski.com
Website: www.zpg-sandanski.com