The Role of Transnational, Private, and For-Profit Provision in Meeting Global Demand for Tertiary Education: Mapping, Regulation and Impact: Case Study: Bulgaria
The Role of Transnational, Private, and For-Profit Provision in Meeting Global Demand for Tertiary Education: Mapping, Regulation and Impact: Case Study: Bulgaria
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2004
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Middlehurst, Robin
Woodfield, Steve
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Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver
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Abstract
the Bulgarian higher education system has
developed rapidly, in contrast to other levels in the education sector. Considerable changes took
place in Bulgarian higher education in the 1990’s, both in terms of increasing access and in the
structure of the system. The proportion of the 19-23-year-old age cohort enrolled in higher
education increased from 7% to 27%, and the percentage of school graduates entering higher
education reached 60%, compared to only 22-25% prior to 1989 (Georgieva, P. et al., 2002, p.
28). Most changes took place as a result of the December 1995 Higher Education Act, later
amended in both June 1999 and in May 2002. Currently, a national debate is taking place on
Government proposals for a series of amendments to the Act, which were due to pass through
the National Assembly by June 2003. These changes deal mainly with the Bologna process and
the need for the Bulgarian higher education system to improve its legal basis to achieve the
objectives of the Bologna declaration.
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Higher Education
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Bulgaria