The articles considers European standards for education quality assessment. The effectiveness of the network of national agencies, in particular ENQA, which includes 40 agencies from 20 countries is described. The European association for quality assurance in education comparing with Ukrainian is described. The ways of introduction of high-quality education in higher educational institutions (hereinafter the HEI) in order to increase the importance of getting education in our state are offered. The key responsibility of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (hereinafter the NAHEQA) in Ukraine according to the internal and external evaluation of the quality of higher education institutions is justified. The Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education” and the Law “On Higher Education and Science in Poland” concerning the powers, composition and main tasks of the NAHEQA and the Polish Accreditation Commission (hereinafter the PAC) are analyzed in the comparative aspect. A great attention is paid to the composition of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance in Ukraine. The criteria for evaluating the programs, subdivisions, and fields of study in Polish higher educational institutions from the highest rating to “no evaluation from 01.11.2011” which are set on the web-portal are described. You should choose the course with the base of all the Polish higher educational institutions. It is estimated that the following indicators such as missions and strategies of the university development and educational standards; teachers qualifications and other people who train students; the interaction with the environment of the socio-economic situation in the learning process; the effectiveness of the internal system of education quality assurance; internationalization of the educational process; accreditation and certificates of institutions, national and international; the infrastructure which is used for implementing learning outcomes, etc during the evaluation of the programs of Polish higher educational institutions are taken into account. The authors of the article give recommendations on ensuring the quality of national higher education as essential for trust in it and European recognition.

The aim: Was exploring features of psychopathological reaction in parents whose children suffer from chronic musculoskeletal disorders. Materials and methods: Clinically, 40 fathers and 64 mothers of children suffering from chronic muscular motor pathologies using M. Hamilton’s Depression and Anxiety Scale and Buss-Durkee Hostility Invertory were examined. Results: It was revealed that the foundation of psychopathological reactions of parents to the chronic illness of children is depressive (from 68,2% to 97,0%) and anxiety (from 40.9% to 100.0%) disorders, and dyssomic disorders as well (from 18.2% to 93.9%), asthenic (from 9.1% to 81.8.%), affective lability (from 9.1% to 36.4%), apathetic (from 4.5% to 42.4%), cognitive (from 4.5% to 42.4%) and obsessive-phobic (from 4.5% to 39.4%) disorders. Mothers with longer and shorter periods of illness in children showed higher levels of depression (20.82 ± 5.94 and 20.26 ± 6.59 respectively) and anxiety (19.06 ± 5.00 and 17, 77 ± 5.65) compared with fathers (17.44 ± 8.78 and 10.82 ± 6.21, respectively; 14.72 ± 5.57 and 14.95 ± 4.45), but fathers showed higher levels of aggression 65.59 ± 10.42 and 63.21 ± 10.31 (respectively versus 55.27 ± 6.97 and 49.72 ± 10.00). Conclusions: А high level of psychopathological reaction in mothers is detected at short periods of disease, and in fathers it significantly grows as the duration of child’s illness increases.

The article is devoted to the problem of improvement of the foreign language communicative skills of future Masters of Pedagogical Science. Special attention has been given to the issue of gradual introduction into the educational process the practice of teaching undergraduate students some academic disciplines in the English language. The authors share their successful experience of teaching undergraduates of the Physical-Mathematical and the Informational-Technological specialties general-academic disciplines in English. This practice is considered one of the effective ways to increase the students’ foreign language competence. On the example of a general-academic discipline «Methodology and Principles of Scientific Research» the authors prove the urgency and expediency of teaching certain subjects in the foreign languages to the applicants of the Master's Degree in Pedagogical Science. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the importance of such practice and to show that teaching some general subjects in English can become a significant factor of improvement of the students’ foreign competence, which in turn contributes to the integration of the Ukrainian scientific-pedagogical community into the European academic community.