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Управлението и финансирането – ключови проблеми на висшето образование
Management and Finance - Key Issues of Higher Education

Author(s): Marko Todorov
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София
Keywords: higher education; management; law; finance; management; project

Summary/Abstract: The higher education in Bulgaria still drops behind the times and develops in an environment that discourages the advance of the necessary remedial processes. Despite the claims that education and science are a priority of every government, the burdensome problems faced by the system are often being solved not as a matter of principle but under the pressure of merely opportunistic and corporate interests. In consequence of a misunderstood university autonomy, the state turned out to be helpless to exert its controlling functions over the system, and in order to restrict the apparent disadvantages it imprisoned the system in a series of formal normative requirements unknown in other states. The Higher Education Law has already exhausted its capacity and now seriously barriers the integration of the Bulgarian higher education in the unified European educational space. A special attention is to be paid to the discussion of the fundamental questions about the management of the higher schools and about the financing of higher education and scientific research. The managerial scheme imposed by the Act on Higher Education is out of date, it is marked social relations that are not present any longer, and does not match the elementary principles of effectiveness and accountability. Not mentioning the unnecessarily big number of higher education institutions in Bulgaria, nor the voluntaristic way to define the scope of their activities, what comes to the fore are the problems of the total state funding of higher education and science and of its effective distribution. Groundless as they are, the currently valid coefficients for budget allotment and the applied mechanism at least produced certain stability, predictability, and transparency in the system. That mechanism however, is connected with another archaism - the state enrollment quotas for students. Therefore, together with the need for increasing the funds for higher education and science, a new mechanism of financing is to be set up.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 35-39
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Bulgarian