IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN UKRAINEUNDER MODERN CONDITIONS

The article deals with current challenges in higher education in Ukraine in the context of improving the quality of training. The directions of higher education reforms having taken place in the independent Ukraine are outlined. The importance of integration and globalizationtrends as well as consideration and use of foreign experience is emphasized. During the years of independence, an extensive network of universities was formed in Ukraine due to creation of a large number of private higher education institutions and raising of the status of former vocational schools and colleges. This and some other factors led to massification of higher education and significant decrease in its quality.The possible ways for improving quality of education in the Ukrainian universities capable of training competitive specialists are suggested.