International education quality system: mission and legal support

The current situation is characterized by a large increase in attention to the quality of higher education almost all over the world, and especially to such an effective tool for ensuring and improving such quality as independent accreditation. The article discusses the legal aspects of ensuring the quality of education and the trends in the formation and development of modern legal methods and approaches. In this regard, the issues of coordination and improvement of accreditation activities on an international scale are of current importance. International networks and associations for quality assurance of higher education have gained wide scope - associations of accreditation agencies from different countries, whose role is aimed at the formation and support of common requirements for ensuring the quality of education. International networks and associations for quality assurance of higher education have gained wide scope - associations of accreditation agencies from different countries, whose role is aimed at the formation and support of common requirements for ensuring the quality of education. In the modern world, this field of activity is directly related to the development of the internationalization of higher education. The purpose of the study of this article is to reveal the activities of various organizational forms of associations, individual features and determine their role in ensuring the quality of education in higher educational institutions. The scientific methods of comparative analysis, collection and processing of primary data, statistical observation and comparison were applied in the article. The value of the article lies in the formation of scientific, practical and methodological provisions, including various aspects of in-depth study of existing international organizations, networks and organizations to ensure the quality of education, modern approaches to improving the conditions for training graduates of higher educational institutions based on world quality standards and international principles for the development of national legal country systems. Results of the study - international experience has been studied and the main trends in ensuring the quality of graduate training in the context of the transformation of the higher education system have been considered. Much attention is paid to the analysis of international approaches to achieving one of the main goals - the high quality of higher education, which is a necessary condition for increasing the competitiveness of graduates and their demand in the labor market. The practical significance of the article lies in determining the need for independent accreditation as the main mechanism for ensuring the quality of higher education, which is a key condition for increasing the competitiveness of educational services. In turn, it is important for accreditation agencies to join international networks and associations, which allows raising the status, authority and quality level of their activities. Key words: legal support, quality of education, independent accreditation, legislation, international networks, international standards.