THE INTERNATIONAL FRANCHISING AGREEMENT IN THE FIELD OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN UKRAINE: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

The article analyzes different approaches, both theoretical and normative, to the construction of the international franchise agreement; in particular the legal nature of an international franchising agreement in the field of higher education is defined, namely: its subject, rights and obligations of the parties, their responsibility. The work focuses on such concepts as autonomy and self-government of higher educational institutions as necessary components for the realization of their powers to conclude international franchising agreements in the field of higher education with reference to the experience of foreign countries. The analysis of provisions of national legislation in the field of higher education is made, in the regulation of an international franchising agreement, a definition of this agreement in the field of higher education and the way of implementing such an agreement on the national market of Ukraine are proposed. The methods, which are used in this research, have systemic nature, which is manifested in the application of various methods of knowledge, depending on specific aspects of the study. In the course of the research a number of general-scientific and special methods were used, namely: comparative-legal, system-structural, logical-legal, technical-legal, method of forecasting and modeling.