LEGAL INSTRUMENTS FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE OF EDUCATION

In the international educational space, ensuring the quality of education is an important and pressing issue of the modern era. Today, there is a global trend, aimed at using digital technologies in the educational process and modern teaching methods.  In the context of the transformation of the education system, universities have received independence and managerial freedom for their development and improvement of the level of specialist training. Therefore, it is necessary to study the changes that have occurred in the legal framework to improve the quality of education. The development of legal support for quality is within the competence of institutional mechanisms that influence the rise of quality.

The main objective of the article is to study the theoretical and practical aspects of legal regulation that affect the expansion of the independence of universities for their development and improvement of the quality of educational services. The research methodology is based on the use of mixed scientific methods, analysis and evaluation, and generalization. The target of the study is to conduct an expanded study of methods. As well as approaches to ensuring the quality of education, and determining legislative norms to improve the quality of services in the republic.

The goals of the Bologna process are to achieve a high quality of education based on the principles of the external assessment system. International legal aspects of the process have no legal force. However, the main provisions are included in the national legislation of the countries participating in the process. However, there are many issues that need to be resolved through the introduction of legal instruments to ensure the quality of the education system, says the author of a legal instrument for the universities' education system. 

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