Education minister Daniel Vulchev told journalists that the budget subsidy for the Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS) would rise by 13,3 per cent and the money for the Scientific Studies fund would increase from 19 to 60 million leva in 2008.

Separately, the subsidy for student allowances would be increased by 30 per cent in 2008, Dnevnik daily said.

Regarding the teachers' strike, minister Vulchev said that everything had its reasonable limit and as far as remunerations were concerned, this limit had been reached. In his words, the teachers' strike helped create the political will to reform the funding model of education.

On November 1 the number schools on strike in the country continued to decrease, said Vulchev. However, the figures were provisional since it was a national holiday – the Day of the Leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival.

Vulchev added that whether the students would be able to catch up with the classes they missed because of the strike would become clear only after the strike would end.