PROBLEMS OF ASSESSING THE STATE OF ORGANIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN BASED ON INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CRITERIA

Abstract The purpose of the study is to assess the status of the implementation of the obligations undertaken by the Republic of Azerbaijan in the field of organization of higher education within the framework of the Bologna process and its adaptation to the European model in 2005-2025. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to modernize the national higher education system in the near and medium term and increase its competitiveness. The methods of logical analysis, identification, and critical comparative analysis were used in the study of the problems of assessing the state of organization of higher education. The necessity of resolving the contradictions between the current and future state of higher education in the Republic of Azerbaijan is revealed with the help of the scientific-regulatory construction of the assessment of the state of organization and implementation of higher education in the Republic of Azerbaijan according to international and national criteria. Strengthening state control over the quality of education has acquired special importance in order to bring higher education in the Republic of Azerbaijan into line with the principles of the international and pan-European education system. Thanks to the institutional measures taken, illegally operating universities, branches of national and foreign universities have been liquidated, and low-quality personnel training in private universities in the field of law has been terminated. The study confirms the necessity of adding norms defining indicators of competence of faculty deans and teachers of specialized departments to the Bologna Declaration and national legislation in order to improve the quality of education in political, law, economics, sociology specialties in higher education institutions. The practical significance of the study is determined by the possibility of assessing the quality indicators of the organization of higher education in any specialty with the help of the regulatory structure proposed by the author.