THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF FORMING AND EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The article summarizes the theoretical foundations of the formation and assessment of the quality of higher education. It is established that the higher education system of Ukraine is aimed at performing a number of functions: professional-economic, social, cultural-humanistic, political-ideological. The main indicators of the quality of education are determined: knowledge, skills, skills; emotional, volitional, motivational spheres of the individual, the level of development of cognitive and other interests and needs, the degree of moral, aesthetic, physical, environmental development, as well as the assimilation of the content of the subject, the degree of abstraction in the presentation of the content of the material. It is proved that the determination of education as a market category is influenced by a number of determining factors of this sphere: the presence of non-state educational institutions; the provision of commercial services of higher education in a number of areas of training; commercialization of educational services; consideration of educational services from a new perspective: not only as a social good, but also as an economic category; strengthening the role of the state as a regulatory body due to the deterioration of the quality of this type of service; the need to achieve a balance of requirements and expectations for the quality of training of personnel of all interested market parties, etc.
 The content of the category "quality of Higher Education Services" is clarified as the correspondence of the set of characteristics of educational activities and scientific and technological development of higher education institutions to the strategic goals of the development of the state’s higher education system and the development strategy of higher education institutions.
 The analysis of the state of the higher education services market allowed us to identify modern vectors of development of domestic higher education, formulate a range of problems in this area, determine the likely risks of
 the higher education system for the development of a number of measures aimed at improving the quality of higher education services and leveling the negative consequences of the external environment on the educational services market. However, in recent years, there has been a tendency to shift priorities towards meeting the needs of stakeholders in the level of quality of higher education services.