The study described the stages of development of a supranational (European) dimension of quality assurance in higher education. To achieve the goal, methods of diachronic and synchronous, comparative analysis of EU documents and the documents of European organizations – collective actors of the Bologna Process (ENQA, ESU, EUA, EURASHE), as well as retrospective and structural-logical analysis of the activities of international organizations of QA (networks, associations, agencies) were used. The following stages of development of the European dimension of QA are identified: 1) the stage of development and experimental verification of QA methodology and procedures in the European region (1991–1997) – preparation and conduction of pilot experiments aimed at the development and implementation of a unified QA methodology in the European region, which should be open to adaptation to its national variants; 2) the stage of institutionalization of the European dimension of QA (1998–2005): the establishment of international QA agencies (ENQA, 2000, CEENQA, 2001, ECA, 2003, NOQA, 2003, etc.), definition of the principles and content of their activities . Launching EQAF as a permanent platform to discuss the development of the European dimension of QA in political, scientific and methodological formats; 3) the stage of standardization of the European dimension of QA (2005–2015): development of ENQA in conjunction with EURASHE, ESU, EUA and approval at the Bergen Ministerial Summit of the document “Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area” (2005), creation of EQAR as a tool for standardizing the activities of national QA agencies, further developing and intensifying the interaction of QA structures at different levels; 4) the stage of legitimizing the European dimension of QA (since 2015): the adoption of the new edition of the “Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area”, creation of the European approach to quality assurance of joint programs, the transformation of the European dimension of QA into a leading factor in modernization the EHEA in accordance with the needs of the socio-economic, socio-political, cultural and educational development of the region. Systemic internationalization of QA, the leading tools of which are: cross-border activities of QA agencies, assessment of the quality of joint educational programs of universities of different countries; assessment of the quality of cross-border/transnational higher education.
The study characterizes the peculiarities of development of the international cooperation in quality assurance (QA) of doctoral training in the context of EHEA development. Chronological analysis of documents of collective subjects of the Bologna process made it possible to find out the factors, principles, directions, forms and trends of the internationalization of the process of doctoral training in EHEA. It is revealed that formation of the normative principles of doctoral training is related to the approval of “Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG)” (Bergen, 2005). Further development of the international co-operation in the QA of doctoral training was acquired during a series of Ministerial Meetings of the Bologna Process Participants (London (2007), Leuven (2009), Bucharest (2012), Yerevan (2015). Clarification of the specifics of QA of doctoral training was made due to the approval of its fundamental principles (Salzburg I), which stated that the key component of the doctoral program is research, which is an integral part of the University’s research programs. The institutional framework for European cooperation in the field of QA of doctoral training has become the international professional network of providers of doctoral programs EUA-CDE. Its participants initiated a series of research on the most pressing problems of doctoral training in EHEA. The study stated that the result of the development of international cooperation in the field of study is the internationalization of QA processes, formation of the European dimension of QA of doctoral training, which has both quantitative characteristics (indicators of the quality of the educational program and research), and qualitative (features of the quality culture of the doctoral training). The systematic and logical analysis of the normative bases and the actual state of the investigated process in Ukraine made it possible to highlight problems and identify prospective ways of participation of the Ukrainian higher education system in shaping the European dimension of QA in doctoral training.
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