“Teachers’ salaries will be increased as of the beginning of 2013,” announced Minister of Education Sergei Ignatov. Junior teachers will receive BGN 500 per month, senior teachers – BGN 530 and head teachers – BGN 570. “In the last three years, salaries in the system have been raised but nobody has felt the increase which was 12% on average,” Ignatov added. The Minister of Education participated in a roundtable where drafts of new curricula in natural sciences and ecology were discussed. These have been developed under a project called For Education of Higher Quality under Operational Programme Human Resources Development.