The Main Issues and Perspectives of The Administrative and Legal Regulation of The Higher Education Reform in Ukraine

This article explicates the relevance of the higher education reform in Ukraine in order to achieve
its compliance with the European and world educational standards. It also characterizes the
importance and key tasks of the legal and administrative support of such reform. The
generalizations of the researches carried out in the specified sphere are also studied. It notes the
importance of ensuring non-discriminative access to educational services by applicants with
special educational needs as an important aspect of protecting their rights and freedoms as a key
requirement of the Bologna Process. Based on an analysis of innovative methods of the
administrative activity in the article, the urgency of forming the state-public form of management
of higher education is defined. It analyses the current regulatory and legal support for the
management of higher education, as well as the introduction of the institution of educational
ombudsman principles of the relevant state educational policy. It aims to supplement and
improve the legal acts in order to ensure democracy, transparency and the inclusion of elements
of corporate governance. The problems of regulating the activities of the National Higher
Education Quality Assurance Agency were noted, and proposals were made to address them.
The most pressing problems of research of the processes of higher education reform, which
require an appropriate legal regulation, are identified. Among them are: ensuring the protection
of the rights and freedoms of participants in the higher education process including gender
equality, systemic restructuring of management model of higher education; and improving
procedures related to ensuring the educational services’ quality.