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Eurydice

EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

Bulgaria

2025

By Decision No. 915 of December 31, 2024 of the Council of Ministers, the List of Research Higher Education Institutions has been updated, and 12 universities have been designated as research HEI.

Key Features of the Education System

The pre-school and school education system in Bulgaria includes kindergartens, schools, personal development support centres, and specialized service units, and provides for education according to state educational standards. The institutions within the pre-school and school education system are legal entities. 

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Academic autonomy

A basic principle of exercising higher education institutions’activity. The academic autonomy shall include academic freedoms, academic self-government and inviolability of the territory of the higher school.

Academic Board

The Academic Board is the authority vested with the governance of a higher school’s educational and research activities through:

Constitution

The Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria, promulgated, State Gazette, issue 56 of 13th July 1991, last amended State Gazette issue 100 of 18th December 2015, sets out the major principles of free development of education (Article 23) and the right of every Bulgarian citizen to education (Article 53).