Higher Education in Bulgaria and EU States – Main Indicators for Development

Teofana Dimitrova

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Higher Education in Bulgaria and EU States – Main Indicators for Development

Teofana Dimitrova

Published in Higher Education Research (Volume 7, Issue 5)

Received: 29 August 2022 Accepted: 15 September 2022 Published: 29 September 2022

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The signing of the Bologna declaration in 1999 is a turning point which created a new axis for the development of the higher education systems in the different European Union (EU) states by establishing a transnational cooperation for building a better-integrated, high-quality, welcoming, attractive and competitive unified European medium for higher education. Despite the obvious advancement for Bulgaria since Bologna (regarding the improved access and increasing the share of higher education graduates, improving higher education quality, modernizing the higher school management system, et al) there is still a lot to be done to overcome some noticeable differences with the other European systems for higher education. Because of this, the goal of this paper is to present the levels and dynamics of some of the main indicators for higher education in Bulgaria and in the European Union states after dividing them into three groups – involvement and participation in the higher education system, academic staff and expenditure on higher education. The gathering of data for the analysis is performed through the last publicly available data from Eurostat (for eight calendar years) and the National Statistics Institute (NSI) in Bulgaria (for ten school years). Among the more important conclusions that can be made are: the total number of students in the EU is increasing while in Bulgaria there is a lasting tendency of decreasing; the highest relative share of professors is in the age group 55-64 years in just two EU states – Bulgaria and Finland; even though public expenses for higher education in Bulgaria are trending upward, they are still far from the average European levels. The results in this current paper may be useful to the academic community, public institutions, non-government organizations, branch organizations and other interested parties.

Published in	Higher Education Research (Volume 7, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.her.20220705.13
Page(s)	153-159
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Higher Education, Higher Education Sector, Bulgaria, European Union

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Department of Marketing and International Economic Relations, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

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