European Educational Policy in Quality Assurance of Higher Education: the Formation and Stages of Development in Pre-Bologna Period

У статті висвітлено передумови європейської інтеграції в галузі вищої освіти; показано становлення та етапи розвитку європейської освітньої політики із забезпечення якості вищої освіти в доболонський період; проаналізовано економічні, історичні та військово-політичні чинники розвитку європейської освітньої політики, що виступають визначальними для етапів; визначено пріоритети європейської освітньої інтеграції; окреслено спільні освітні цілі; детально проаналізовано етапи розвитку освітньої політики із забезпечення якості вищої освіти; охарактеризовано основні освітні європейські програми щодо академічної співпраці.The preconditions of European integration in the sphere of higher education have been given in the article; the formation and stages of European educational policy in quality assurance of higher education during pre-Bologna period have been shown. The determining factors for the stages have been analyzed: the civilization factors – existence of common spiritual values, compatibility of social and political ideals; the economic factors – possibility of complementary economic, scientific and technological development; the historical factors – traditional cooperation, mutual respect, traditional desire for unit; the military and political factors – common interests of the main international matters, cooperation in military and political alliances, settlements of territorial disputes. The priorities of European educational integration have been defined: the equality of educational chances, the improvement of education quality, the formation of a modern system of educational personnel training; the joint educational goals (the formation of European solidarity and understanding the importance of advances in the field of democracy, justice and respect for human rights; preparing to participate in building and socio-economic development of the EU; knowledge of the history, culture, economy and traditions of the member states). The main stages of educational policy in quality assurance and their specific features have been analyzed in details; the main educational programs as for academic association have been characterized. They are: 1) professional education programs to foster links with industry – Comett (cooperation between universities to improve the quality of training); Petra (professional training of youth); Eurotecnet (development of innovations in the field of vocational training); Power (development of innovation policy and exchange of training experience); 2) mobility programs to establish contacts between universities – Erasmus (student exchange program); Youth For Europe (encourage of the students to participate in the democratic process); Jean Monnet (assurance the best quality of teaching, research in European integration of higher education institutions within EU and outside); 3) support programs for marginalized groups and regions: Now, Iris (development of innovation in vocational training to ensure greater woman participation in the European education policy): 4) program to provide the development of methods for the diploma recognition (Eurydice, ECTS)