The Bulgarian academic profession in transition     

Snejana Slantcheva 《Higher Education》2003,45(4):425-454

In this essay I analyze the current status of the academicprofession in Bulgaria at a time of difficult socio-economictransition. After providing a brief overview of the historicaldevelopment of Bulgarian academia, I discuss faculty workingconditions, the career path within the profession and the legalframework for the professoriate. Numerous problems with respectto finances, institutional infrastructure and legal environmentchallenge the status quo of the Bulgarian faculty. The essaycloses by highlighting the future key issues for theacademic profession that focus around its finanacial viability,difficulties in recruiting a new generation of scholars, the qualityof teaching and learning, and faculty entrepreneurship.  相似文献   

The Challenges to Vertical Degree Differentiation within Bulgarian Universities: The Problematic Introduction of the Three-Level System of Higher Education     

Slantcheva  Snejana 《Tertiary Education and Management》2000,6(3):209-225

The on-going higher education reformmovements in Central and Eastern Europe have beenseriously challenged by numerous difficulties in aperiod of political, economic and social transition. The reform of higher education in Bulgaria, as in manyof the post-communist countries, has involved aradical restructuring of the degree system. The 1995Law on Higher Education demanded the introduction ofthe bachelor-master-doctor structure; the new degreeshad to replace the traditional one-phased system ofhigher education. Several important factors haveproved counterproductive to the implementation of thispolicy and especially to the effectiveinstitutionalisation of the bachelor degree. Suchfactors have included the traditionally narrowspecialisation in higher education, the prescribednormative framework, and institutional organisation. The paper argues that, rather than introduce aqualitative change in the educational mission,curricula, and the organisation of the universityprogrammes, the policy reproduces the old educationalprocess under the guise of a new name.  相似文献   

Mechanisms of lifelong learning: the spread of innovative short-cycle higher education qualifications within national systems     

Snejana?Slantcheva-DurstEmail author 《Higher Education》2014,68(1):87-102

This study examines the process of the dissemination of innovative short-cycle higher education qualifications within European national lifelong learning systems. Using qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, the study focuses on the cases of the Netherlands and Flanders, and traces the emergence of the new idea, its metamorphosis within and communicating through the social systems, and the main proponents behind that process.  相似文献