The article clarifies that the legal mechanism of the system of regulation of higher
education is a set of international legal acts, obligations of Ukraine, the Constitution of
Ukraine, laws of Ukraine, by-laws and individual acts of application, intended to regulate legal
relations between the subjects of educational activities in the process of influencing the
education sector. It is determined that the peculiarities of the organizational and legal
mechanism of state regulation of higher education transformation are independent
development and innovative activity, which is emphasized in the Law of Ukraine “On Higher
Education”, namely: full autonomy of higher education institutions, their right to self-manage
their own funds, freedom to determine academic strategies and approaches
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