THE MECHANISMS OF HIGHER EDUCATION PUBLIC REGULATION IN BULGARIA

Today, the challenges Bulgarian higher schools face, are related to the Strategy for development of the higher education of the Republic of Bulgaria for the period 2014-2020. The state policy in the field of higher education fully responds to the requirements of the European policy. This means equivalence and harmonization of main objectives of the education policy at the national and European level, as well as unity and colinearity of the systems for education quality management. The relationship between higher schools and the labor market, related to the supply and demand of experts in the field of higher education, the encouragement of research activities, modernization of management systems of higher education and better financial control systems are some of the main goals of the Strategy for development of higher education of Republic of Bulgaria for the period 2014-2020. In the present publication, the mechanisms of public regulation of higher education in the last years are studied. The accent is put on the financial mechanisms of the state through which the policy for the fulfillment of the main goals of the Strategy for development of the higher education in the Republic of Bulgaria for the period 2014-2020 is done. Through the amendments of the legislation and the financial mechanisms of the state, the main objective of the government is to be achieved a high quality of the services provided, the high public rate of return, higher competitiveness and higher implementation of the theory in the practice.