THE LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY PROVISION OF THE RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGICAL WORKERS' PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE
The purpose of the article is based on the analysis of the legislative and regulatory documents and modern practice of the research and pedagogical workers' professional development to identify the trends of its implementation and to study out the compliance with its real state to the norms set out in the state documents. Methodology. The methodological basis of the study is a system approach. The main research methods: the analysis of the legislative acts, regulations, study of the current state of the research and pedagogical workers' professional development in the universities of Ukraine, comparison, generalization, systematization of theoretical and empirical data, terminological analysis, content-analysis. Scientific novelty. Based on the analysis and generalization of the legislative acts, regulations concerning the research and pedagogical workers' professional development, study of the current state of its implementation in the Ukrainian higher educational institutions its importance in building the human potential has been grounded and the tendencies of its realization in higher education of Ukraine have been revealed. Conclusions. The «professional development» concept occupies an important place in the state educational documents and applies to various categories of employees. Among them, a special attention is paid to the research and pedagogical workers, who thanks to the continuous professional development transform the latest scientific achievements and innovations into the content and organizational forms of higher education, ensuring their compliance with the individual's current professional needs and long-term needs of Ukraine. The main trends in the research and pedagogical workers' professional development in the higher education system of Ukraine are: strengthening the institutional autonomy of universities to implement this process and take into account its results; giving the academic councils of universities the authority to manage the research and pedagogical workers' professional ...