The article analyzes the administrative and legal guarantees of higher spiritual education in the context of modern educational legislation of Ukraine. Given the insufficient level of scientific and legal study of the topic and innovative processes in the Ukrainian educational environment, our article fills the gaps in the study of this issue to some extent. Despite the declared norms in the educational legislation, administrative and legal guarantees of the activity of higher spiritual education institutions as religious organizations continue to be formed.
New educational legislation established new guarantees for institutions of higher spiritual education and set a new trajectory for the development of theological education. In particular, the law preserves the autonomy of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and due to accreditation, institutions of higher spiritual education issue state diplomas. The legislator allows religious organizations to maximally correlate the educational policy of higher spiritual education institutions, and to determine the principles of student government. Regarding the procedure of licensing and accreditation, opening of postgraduate and doctoral studies, specialized academic council on specialty 041 “Theology”, the legislator provides significant concessions and clearly recognizes all documents of higher theological institutions that are equivalent to state documents. However, the institutionalization of theology in the secular education system requires the search for new forms in the educational and scientific space of Ukraine.
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