THE IMPACT OF EUROINTEGRATION PROCESON THE STATE POLICY IN THE SPHERE OF HIGHER EDUCATION OF UKRAINE

Nowadays higher education in Ukraine meets a number of challenges: insufficient funding, a weak connection with the labor market, missing of quality etc. Higher education institutions must be effective to succeed in research, to provide best academic practices and high quality of studies. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the the impact of impact of Euro integration processes on the state policy in the sphere of the higher education of Ukraine and to determine the ways of adaptation of the best European practices to the the state policy in the sphere of higher education of Ukraine. Benchmarking is crucial for the whole higher educational system as the method of searching for best practices that enables the achievement of the best results by learning from the others, using their experience and collaborating with them. To be appropriate to the educational system, research methodology includes external benchmarking and benchmarking of processes. Benchmarking being a part of good governance principle in higher education is valuable research both in Ukraine and internationally (e.g. European Benchmarking Initiative). The benchmarking program boosts quality of Ukrainian higher education system, university strategic profiling and performance improving for ensuring the life-long-learning principles in Ukraine.