The Ministry of Education and Science (MBG) in Bulgaria is the state body implementing the national policy in higher education. The Ministry makes motions before the Council of Ministers about: the general guidelines of the national policy in higher education; the amount of the annual state budget subsidy for each state higher school; establishment, transformation or close of faculties, institutes, affiliated faculties and colleges of state higher schools on the basis of a request by the respective higher education institutions; the State Register of educational and qualification degrees in the individual specialties; the Unified State Requirements for obtaining degrees by professions or specialties; the number of students (annually) to be enrolled in higher schools, the number of students for each state higher schools, the total number of students in private higher schools, as well as the number of post-graduates in higher schools; the amount of the application fees and the tuition fees for the state higher schools; the terms and conditions for granting scholarships in state higher schools and for accommodation in students’ residence halls and other social benefits for undergraduates, postgraduates and specializing students in all higher schools; state requirements for the recognition of higher education attained at foreign higher schools; the state requirements for students admissions; the unified state requirements towards the content of the main documents issued by higher schools. The Ministry of Education and Science also perform co-coordinating functions in the relationship between the autonomous higher schools and the State; maintain a Register of the higher schools in which data about their main units and the specialties they have launched is entered; arrange for the recognition and legalizing of the diplomas of persons who have completed their studies abroad; appoint acting Rector of new or transformed state higher schools pending the elections to be held there but for no longer than 6 months; exercise control over the higher schools as to the observance of the Higher Education Act and the state requirements. Elka Dobreva of the Ministry of Education and Science will ensure the involvement of the ministry and the promotion of the outcomes in the national context.