PROBLEMS OF LEGAL REGULATION OF TRAINING OF SCIENTIFIC AND SCIENTIFIC-PEDAGOGICAL PERSONNEL IN POSTGRADUATE STUDIES

Introduction: this article discusses the problems of the institute of postgraduate studies (adjunct studies). The discussion on these issues has been dividing the entire scientific expert community into two camps for quite some time. The experts who make up the first of these camps believe that postgraduate studies (adjunct studies) are one of the levels of higher education. The experts who make up the second camp insist that the main task of postgraduate studies (adjunct studies) is to train a scientific researcher, not a teacher; accordingly, graduate students (adjuncts) should not attend courses of lectures and pass exams, but engage in scientific work. The relevance of the issue is explained by the discussion of a number of legislative initiatives aimed at changing the legal regulation of postgraduate studies (adjunct studies). Purpose: to show ways to solve the problems of the institute of postgraduate studies (adjunct studies), including by evaluating the draft changes in regulations. Methods: system analysis, historical method. Results: analyzed documents of a political and legal nature, as well as draft regulations aimed at reforming the institute of postgraduate studies (adjunct studies), formulated directions for its improvement. Conclusions: according to the authors, the institute of postgraduate studies (adjunct studies) is not compatible with the system of higher education because of the difference in goals that are achieved in the educational process and in the preparation of scientific research in postgraduate studies (adjunct studies), so that there is no and can be no other way than complete and decisive withdrawal of the institute of postgraduate studies (adjunct studies) from absolutely alien to him sphere of higher education in the sphere of science; only in this case, you can count on the revival of this truly important form of training scientific and pedagogical personnel of the highest category.