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Bulgaria's President is prepared to back the objections of some Bulgarian scholars to the Academic Staff Act and veto the newly adopted law. Photo by BGNES
Bulgarian President has said Monday he may veto the government's new Act for the Development of Academic Staff.
During a Monday meeting with young Bulgarian scholars from the Cogito and IRION scholarly associations, President Georgi Parvanov said he agrees with most of the criticism expressed for the new Act.
Bulgarian Sofia University academics, scholars from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and various other Bulgarian scientific organizations have sent the President their objections to the newly adopted Act.
The Act for the Development of Academic Staff was adopted April 15 and replaced the existing law on academic degrees and titles.
According to the Act, the Higher Attestation Committee – an independent outside body, responsible for granting academic titles – must be shut down within 8 months. Bulgarian universities will take on its functions and will be allowed to bestow academic titles.
Bulgaria's Education Minister Sergey Ignatov, who has authored most of the Act, said during parliamentary discussions on April 15 that the changes to the country's higher education will boost “the competitive spirit” of Bulgarian universities and pointed out that no “boom” of academic titles is expected as the procedure for receiving one is quite tough.
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