Counter to trends in the European Union, where the number of students since 2001 has continuously grown, in Bulgaria it was decreasing.

At the same time Bulgaria was an exception in the EU where the proportion of number of teachers relative to the number of students is lower than average in Europa. This proportion is how effectiveness in education expenses was measured, Dnevnik daily said.

The Bulgarian education systems ranks in one of the last places measured by average means per student set aside by the government, which was two times under EU average, the daily said.

Measured by means for research and development, the difference was twenty-fold, according to a European Commission report on the trends in higher education which the daily quoted.