НЕОБХОДИМОСТТА ОТ НОВ ЗАКОН КАТО ПРЕДПОСТАВКА ЗА РЕФОРМА ВЪВ ВИСШЕТО ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ
THE NEED OF NEW HIGHER EDUCATION LAW AS A PRE-REQUISITE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM

Summary/Abstract: The paper outlines the main problems of the Bulgarian higher education and science in the context of Bulgarian integration into the EU. What is emphasized is that there is no immediate correlation between the Bulgarian higher education reform and the process of negotiations with EU, since the educational policy of the EU, including the Bologna process, is not coercive as to the implementation of certain conditions but is rather based on the subsidiarity principle. Within these terms, the initiative and the responsibility for the reform parameters are referred to the state and its higher education institutions. The now functioning normative base is unable to solve the most serious and deepening problems of the higher education as: 1. Aging of the academic staff; 2. Ineffective higher school network; 3. Setting public and private universities on unequal terms; 4. Ineffective accreditation procedures; 5. Ineffective management; 6. Insufficient finance and ineffective admission procedures; 7. Education quality decrease, etc. After a comparative analysis of three expert draft projects for Higher Education Law (proposed by expert groups presided by prof. Pepka Boyadjieva, prof. Kamen Velev, and prof. Anastas Gerdjikov) consensual solutions are searched for to ground an overall reform of the Bulgarian higher education normative base.

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