Subjects of International Cooperation in Higher Education in Ukraine and the Limits of Their Competence
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https://doi.org/10.32631/pb.2025.4.07Keywords:
education and science, international cooperation, international cooperation in the field of higher education, sustainable development, administrative law.Abstract
The need for legal research on international cooperation in higher education is driven, in particular, by the regional issue of European integration and the global issues of internationalisation and globalisation of higher education. The latter are the subject of a number of scientific studies, which, in terms of methodology, are partly based on the relevant experience and practices of international cooperation between higher education institutions, in particular foreign ones. In addition, various areas of international cooperation between higher education institutions give rise to a wide range of actors, which, from a legal point of view, requires separate research due to the large number of regulatory and legal acts that determine the legal status and limits of competence of the relevant actors. The article is devoted to identifying the subjects of international cooperation in the field of higher education and characterising the limits of their competence. International subjects of such cooperation are analysed, and national subjects are identified by studying various regulatory and legal acts of domestic national law. The limits of competence of subjects of international cooperation in higher education are outlined, and a basic list of criteria for their further classification is formed.
The subjects of international cooperation in the field of higher education are a system of international subjects (states and confederations, international intergovernmental and inter-state organisations, other subjects with a foreign component) and a system of subjects of domestic law, namely: the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; the President of Ukraine; the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine; ministries and other central executive bodies, their authorised departments and employees; advisory bodies to executive bodies; state-owned enterprises, institutions and organisations related to higher education and their authorised employees; local state authorities responsible for higher education and their authorised employees; state higher education institutions, scientific and scientific-production institutions and their structural subdivisions; commercial legal entities and individual entrepreneurs; public and/or self-governing organisations, associations, associations of individuals or legal entities in the field of higher education; individuals whose main activities or interests relate to the field of higher education.
The criteria for classifying entities involved in international cooperation in the field of higher education may include the following: subject, subject matter, influence, and industry.
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