PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

The article emphasizes the need for orientation of higher education in Ukraine to meet the educational needs of the individual, to restore the intellectual, spiritual potential of the nation, the output of domestic science, technology and culture to world European levels, the formation of statehood and democracy in society, the provision of the labor market by highly skilled and competitive specialists. The condition for ensuring such orientation is the change in the relevant quality indicators of higher education through the change in the national idea of higher education; the development of higher education should be subject to the laws of a market economy; Higher education development should be considered in the context of trends in the development of world educational systems, including Western European ones. A group of standards has been negotiated under the terms of guaranteeing the quality of higher education - these are standards for the internal quality assurance of institutions of higher education; - standards for external quality assurance of institutions of higher education; - European Standards for External Agencies for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. The process of assessing the quality of higher education in Ukraine, which is conducted under internal and external procedures, is investigated, namely: - the process of internal evaluation includes systematic collection of administrative information, interviews of students and graduates, informal discussions with teachers and students; - The component of external evaluation is the attendance of the faculty by the control group to determine the quality of teaching and teaching. External observers are teachers or people of professional background who, based on communication with students and young researchers, make a final report. Within the framework of the definition of psychological and pedagogical conditions for improving the quality of higher education in Ukraine, it is proposed to use the experience of the quality assurance system in European countries, namely: - a culture of quality assurance: availability of strategy, policy and atmosphere of internal quality assurance of higher education institutions; - culture of quality assurance: the autonomy of institutions of higher education as a prerequisite for the effectiveness of quality assurance processes; - culture of quality assurance: external quality assurance as a function of an independent agency and the direction of external quality assessment to improve the performance of institutions of higher education; - Motivation for quality assurance; - quality assurance of scientific activity: from the index of quotes to peer review; - the interaction of universities with stockholders; - reform of the third cycle of higher education; - Internationalization as a tool for quality assurance; - the role of students in the processes of quality assurance.