QUOTA AS A LEGAL TOOL FOR IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

The author examines the provisions of the current regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation,guiding (strategic) documents defining the directions of legal policy to improve the effectiveness of theeducation system. The hypothesis is put forward that one of the legal instruments to stimulate interestin specific areas of training, as well as to equalize the needs of the labor market, is the institute of quotas.Referring to the various points of view of scientists on the functional purpose of quotas, their practicalimplementation in the conditions of modern state-legal laws, the author puts forward a provision on thepossibility of perceiving quotas as an independent legal means aimed at regulating public relations. Applyinga variety of means and methods of cognition, among which a special role was assigned to the dialecticalmethod, as well as with the help of comparative legal, formal legal methods, the conclusions are argued,specifying the doctrine of the means of legal regulation, legal advantages, incentives and restrictions in law,aimed, inter alia, at improving the effectiveness of the education system.