Organizational and Legal Principles of Ensuring Academic Autonomy of Higher Educational Institutions

Svitlana Viktorivna Yevdokimenko; Mykola Ivanovich Inshyn; Olena Salmanova; Andriy Polstyanoy

doi:10.34069/AI/2020.32.08.6

Svitlana Viktorivna Yevdokimenko Institute of Forensic Examinations of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2924-6621
Mykola Ivanovich Inshyn Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9332-0286
Olena Salmanova Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6376-1160
Andriy Polstyanoy Kharkiv National University named after V.N. Karazin. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6513-1533

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2020.32.08.6

Keywords: academic autonomy, higher education, legal principles, legislative provision, educational institutions, educational system.

Abstract

The objective of the article is to determine the content and specific features of organizational and legal principles for ensuring the academic autonomy of higher educational institutions. In order to achieve this objective, the authors used the following methods of scientific cognition: dialectical, formal and legal, bibliographic.
Problematic issues that are directly related to the implementation of legal norms for ensuring academic autonomy of higher educational institutions have been studied. The authors have formed own definitions of such concepts as “academic autonomy of educational institutions”, “organizational provision of academic autonomy” and “legal provision of academic autonomy”. Historical stages of formation and development of academic autonomy have been considered. Foreign and international norms regarding the observance of academic freedom and honesty in the most developed democratic countries of the world have been characterized. Suggestions for improving academic mobility, academic autonomy and academic freedom both in Ukraine and in the world have been provided.

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Author Biographies

Svitlana Viktorivna Yevdokimenko, Institute of Forensic Examinations of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

Doctor of Law, Assistant Professor, Head of Continuing Education Department Hon. Prof. M. S. Bokarius Kharkiv Research Institute of Forensic Examinations of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

Mykola Ivanovich Inshyn, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Doctor of Jurisprudence, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Labor and Social Security Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Olena Salmanova, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs.

Doctor of Jurisprudence, Professor, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Administrative Law and Process of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs.

Andriy Polstyanoy, Kharkiv National University named after V.N. Karazin.

Assistant of the Medical Faculty, Kharkiv National University named after V.N. Karazin.

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