ANALYSIS OF THE EDUCATION MARKET STATUS QUO AND MEASURES FOR INCREASING THE QUALITY OF THE EDUCATION PROCESS

Nina Gergova

Scientific paper ID 1651 : 2018/3

ANALYSIS OF THE EDUCATION MARKET STATUS QUO AND MEASURES FOR INCREASING THE QUALITY OF THE EDUCATION PROCESS

Nina Gergova

Bulgarian higher education faces many challenges, related to the creation of European and global education market where the education process is becoming accessible to the masses.

The European and Bulgarian policy in the field of higher education is oriented to: higher quality and effectiveness of education, implementation of the lifelong learning approach, encouraging the innovations in the field of education.

In the current paper, a characteristic of the education market status quo in Bulgaria is presented. The analysis is made in the condition of fierce competition, higher customer’s needs, demographic crisis, earlier school leaving, insufficient funding and misshapen structure of the education process. The system of the higher education in Bulgaria in various indicators for the period 2012-2017 is examined.

The mechanisms for state regulation, by which the funding of higher schools in the last years is determined, are also presented in the paper. The status quo of the system is assessed in the help of various indicators, the negative trends are also taken into account, as well as the possibilities for increasing the quality of the education of students and the perspectives for the development of the higher schools. The main accent is put over the financial mechanisms for state policy related to the quality of education at the higher schools in Bulgaria.

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