Contemporary Challenges to the National System of Higher Education: Value, Institutional and Technological Aspects of Legal Regulation

Abstract

Aim. To analyze the legal mechanisms for establishing a sovereign model of higher education in Russia, to identify regulatory deficiencies inherited from the Bologna process, and to substantiate the valuebased and legal foundations for overcoming them.
Methodology. The study is based on formal legal and comparative legal methods. The application of the axiological method made it possible to identify the value-based foundations for the transformation of education and substantiate the need to return to traditional spiritual and moral guidelines.
Results. The need to address three sets of interrelated objectives is substantiated. These objectives are restoring traditional spiritual and moral guidelines in the educational law system, transitioning to a flexible institutional architecture (a system of basic and specialized education), requiring amendments to the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation”, and affirming the principle of pedagogy.
Research implications lie in revealing the axiological dimension of the processes of sovereignization of Russian higher education, as well as in substantiating practical approaches to integrating traditional values into the educational process. The findings can be used in legislative efforts to improve the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation,” as well as in law enforcement practices at higher education institutions when developing local regulations.