Higher education in Bulgaria in a historical perspective: Dynamics of expansion and inequalities
Higher education in Bulgaria in a historical perspective: Dynamics of expansion and inequalities

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at exploring the inequalities in the access to higher education in Bulgaria in a historicalperspective. It focuses on the question of how the distribution of opportunities in the access tohigher education has been changing over time among diverse groups of the population. The mainargument is that the expansion of higher education in Bulgaria before and especially after the collapseof socialism (1989) gives an opportunity to many people to be educated in higher education institutions, but it does not go hand in hand with the corresponding reducing of inequalities (andespecially qualitative inequalities) in access to tertiary education. The paper utilizes data from theNational Statistical Institute and from Gender and Generation Survey (2004) and uses descriptivestatistics and logistic regression models for the data analysis. Overall, the study outlines a trend ofpersistence of qualitative inequalities. It also demonstrates the potential of bringing together twoframeworks: one of an analysis of the routes of higher education expansion and other of the capabilityapproach when studying inequalities in access to higher education in a dynamic perspective.

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