Why the Education Failing the Nation? Higher Education in Bulgaria 2024—Still Too Many Universities, Still Few Quality Opportunities

There are less than 50,000 senior high school students in Bulgaria in 2024, but 51 educational institutions are vying for their attention as future students, with an impressive number of around 40,000 places available. On the one hand, for almost everyone who wants to study and does not go abroad, on the other hand, does quantity refer to quality? The topic is not new for the Bulgarian education system, what is new is that in the last five years, marked by global health, geopolitical and socio-economic crises: the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza, the financial recession in the Eurozone, controversial changes have been adopted by a series of five Bulgarian governments, the consequences of which we are yet to study.