Legal basis of control in the sphere of higher education in Ukraine

The article examines the current issue of control in the field of higher education and the legal basis for its implementation. The concept of control in the higher education system is thoroughly analyzed, based on the analysis of a significant source base. It is emphasized that the Law of Ukraine «On Education» has incorporated changes in Ukrainian legislation in the direction of European integration processes, as well as positive experience in exercising control in the higher education system abroad. The principles and stages of controlling the quality of higher education in Ukraine are described. Using comparative law, dialectical, logical and other methods, the source, documentary and legislative base for exercising control in the field of higher education is analyzed. Itis emphasized that today all participants in the educational process are faced with the problem of improving the quality of education, its adaptation to life realities: economic, social, cultural, demographic, etc. It is stated that Ukrainian higher education, determining the main paths of its reforms, has entered a period of practical assessment of its own mentality, established traditions in the field of forms and methods of education, quality control of knowledge, verification of their adequacy to the goals, objectives, and level of development of the general human, material and technological culture of society. However, it is indicated that the current legislation in the field of education still requires significant changes in terms of implementing control over the quality of education, inиparticular higher education, which, in turn, will contribute to the further development of both independent Ukraine and its people, in particular their scientific, economic and spiritual level.