MEANING AND ROLE OF HIGHER SCHOOL FOR BULGARIAN REGIONS’ SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

This article is a partial picture of higher education in Bulgaria and the need to provide quality educational services at the regional level. The exhibition presents the importance and role of higher education in the recruitment of the regional elite and the quality of staff. A methodological framework that is proposed, assumes the systematization of the accumulated theoretical and practical experience in the field of higher education. Some deficiencies have been systematized, which affect the quality of education and the mismatch between business expectations at the level of planning regions, as well as the impact on municipalities and the need for staff for higher education graduates in the country. The main trends and conditions in which higher education in Bulgaria is developing and the search for opportunities to increase its role within the Bulgarian regions are outlined. In practice, regional development can become a national priority by building a quality educational environment and having a balanced regional development.