Address:
Embassy of Bulgaria
16/1 7 Chandragupta Marg,
Chanakyapuri
Chanakyapuri
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Contact:
Desislava Taneva
Third Secretary
TEL: +91 (0)11 2611 5551
Fax: +91 (0)11 2687 6190
E-mail: taneva75@abv.bg
Website: www.bulgariaembindia.com
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USEFUL LINKS
www.hrdc.bg/universeng.htm
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| INTRODUCTION:-
The Republic of Bulgaria
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EDUCATION SYSTEM
Bulgaria considers education a major priority and continues its efforts to
implement the main objectives of the "Bologna process" at the national level in
order to ensure that the national higher education system is able to adapt
towards the new European realities, and to guarantee sustainable system
development in compliance with the objectives of the European Higher Education
Area, while providing profound, valuable and competitive knowledge and skills.
The amendments to national laws realised so far are related to the structure of
higher education qualifications, and are mainly aimed at improving equal
opportunity of access to further studies, and at increasing the effectiveness
of the system and internal mobility.
Bulgaria has more than 40 higher education institutions, including
universities, specialised higher education institutions and colleges. Colleges
can be either public or private, and may form part of another higher education
institution.
Bulgaria has implemented a 3-cycle system of higher education degrees,
including Bachelors, Masters and doctoral degrees.
Bachelors degrees require a course of instruction of at least four years,
culminating in a state examination or defending an undergraduate thesis.
Masters degrees, earned after a Bachelors degree, require at least a five-year
course of study, culminating in a state examination or defending a Masters
thesis. Doctoral degrees require at least a three-year course of study after
the Masters degree. A doctorate is conferred upon candidates who pass the
examinations specified in the curriculum and successfully defend a dissertation
as stipulated in the Academic Degrees and Titles Act.
Bachelors degree studies provide basic comprehensive training and direct
qualification for the labour market.
Another degree in the Bulgarian higher education system is the Specialist
degree, earned through a three-year course of studies with a practical
orientation in a college, which may be an independent higher education
institution or an organisational unit of a larger institution. The Specialist
degree qualifies students either to continue their studies for a higher degree,
or to enter the labour market.
Bulgaria has ratified the Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications
Concerning Higher Education in the European Region (the "Lisbon Recognition
Convention"), and since 2005, graduates of Bulgarian universities have received
a Diploma Supplement in one of the widely spoken languages of the EU as well as
in Bulgarian.
In their efforts to become more competitive on the European and the global
scale, Bulgarian higher education institutions enhance their collaboration with
European universities by designing joint educational programmes in which
studies are conducted in EU languages, thus contributing to the consolidation
of educational processes in Europe and ensuring access to the European labour
market through professional qualifications.
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