It will not be possible to obtain higher legal education in absentia; the relevant proposals are contained in the draft Concept of the Bill on Higher Legal Education and Primary Access to the Legal Profession, which approved in the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy.
The draft law also provides for a ban on training lawyers in educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine, and higher military educational institutions. As the authors of the concept indicate, such a ban on training will make it possible to reduce the expenditure of funds from the state budget and will make it more difficult to attract personnel from law enforcement agencies, in particular, police officers.
According to the Concept of Legal Education Reform:
— obtaining higher legal education occurs exclusively in the legal specialty, which corresponds to specialty 0421 Law of the International Standard Classification of Education ISCED-F 2013;
Training of lawyers cannot be carried out by higher education institutions with specific training conditions or higher military educational institutions;
— a master's degree in law is obtained on the basis of complete general secondary education;
— training of students in the legal specialty in the system of professional pre-higher education and at the junior bachelor's and bachelor's levels is not carried out;
— the organization of training for higher education applicants in the correspondence form of obtaining education in the law specialty is reorganized into training in a mixed form of study (full-time and distance learning), which provides for conducting training sessions and practical training in the amount of at least half of the total volume of training sessions and practical training for the full-time form of obtaining higher education in accordance with the educational program;
— obtaining higher legal education is carried out in state-owned higher education institutions that fall under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and Science or in private higher education institutions.
— increasing the influence of the Unified State Qualification Exam based on the results of obtaining a master's degree in law on the results of external evaluation of the quality of educational programs in law;
— introduction of testing of general academic competencies using organizational and technological processes of external independent assessment upon admission to obtain a master's degree in law as an alternative to external independent assessment in mathematics;
— creating favorable conditions for involving lecturers from foreign law schools in teaching, etc.
Legal education reform was also mentioned in the reports of the State Judicial Administration on the results of the implementation of the USAID donor program "Justice for All".
Thank you for being with us! Monobank for the support of the ElitExpert editorial office.
