Because digital skills are in demand in every sphere of activity today, quality education in the field benefits all students, not only those seeking IT careers. “We are happy that our programs provide stu- dents with equal access to the digital world and an opportunity to enter it, so that they are freer to decide on a future profession and a location from which to exercise it. Our goal is to help them succeed regardless of the field in which they choose to develop, because digital skills are key to any profession, now and in the future,” says Petar Sharkov, the academy’s executive director. “Another important aspect of our work is the teachers in our courses; we work with out- standing professionals across the country, and this year our network already numbers 100 teachers. A total of 94% of these teachers
say that they apply what they have learned at Telerik Academy School in their teaching out- side it as well. This confirms that our work in the education system leads to positive change well beyond our programs,” Sharkov adds.
Educational change wasn’t what Telerik Academy founders Svetozar Georgiev, Boyko Yaramov, Vassil Terziev, and Hristo Kosev had in mind when they started the academy back in 2011. But just like their company Telerik — whose sale to Progress Software for $263 million in 2014 is still the largest tech deal in Bulgaria to date — the academy became a true game changer in the ICT field in Bulgaria.
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