New Strategy for Higher Education for 2021-2030 in Bulgaria and Challenges for Its Implementation

Abstract

A strategy for higher education has to begin and end with quality of higher education process itself, because this is the first and main criterion by which we may or may not be included in the world university rankings. The strategy started with quantitative parameters and so will end in this way - with quantitative results, numerous changes in law, etc. Defining the main national priorities is perhaps the most essential action in creating a document of this nature and there is no way to organize the priorities of any system, even if it is the most important for our society. The purpose of this publication is to examine the challenges the new Strategy for Higher Education for 2021-2030 in Bulgaria is facing.