Purpose. Change in educational standards and technology of entering high education lead today, with all other results, to deformation of a professional profile of a graduate of a university. The practice of transition to a three-tier system of higher education (bachelor’s, master’s, post-graduate) and, in turn, the rejection of a specialty, testifies to the intention of government institutions to form a qualitative model of stage-by-stage vocational education. At the same time, individual components of the general educational function of the state are neglected: the ratio of the number of professional programs in higher education institutions and their pedagogical potential, the level of qualification skills of the teaching staff, the interrelationship of production and higher education institute. Methodology: dialectics, formally legal method, synthesis, analysis, economic-legal and psychological-legal methods. Conclusions. Firstly, in spite of the changes in educational policy in line with the market economy, the transition to the Bologna (European) standards, the introduction of other innovations and rules, the result does not agree with the expectations of the society and the demands of employers. Here you can observe the transition from the real quality of education to the number of graduates of law schools with conditional superficial knowledge, which can be designated as inflation of higher legal education. Secondly, the state must propose to the society the variability of the implementation of educational policy in this way guarantee the citizen the opportunity to use the dynamics and efficiency in the selection of advanced, promising forms of pedagogical and scientific activity. From this perspective, government agencies should continue letter of accreditation and other monitoring arrangements in relation to universities that accomplish training legal personnel (judicial personnel) to the subject of compliance quality characteristics and prospects of operation. Thirdly, concernment causes socio-legal status of high school teacher starting from the level of remuneration of labour, respect for this category of blackcoated proletariat from the society as a whole, ending with condition of legal guarantee of the rights, legitimate interests of this group of people and also availability of corresponding privileges and preferences. Scientific and practical significance. Undertaken study allows defining inflationary processes in the sphere of higher legal education as a scientific novella, which makes it possible to understand strategic miscalculations in educational policy. The authors sure that weakness and destructive tendencies in the development of the system of higher legal education could reduce the efficiency of the functioning of the public authority system and organizational management behaviour of non-governmental structures. The conclusions of this study can be used to change (reform) the general architecture of educational policy, to discuss its parameters at the level of scientific seminars and conferences.
Problems of legal education in contemporary Russia
