Annual assessment of academic staff and regular publication of the results of such evaluations on the official websites of higher education institutions, on information boards and in any other way is a regulatory requirement laid down in subparagraph 3 of paragraph 2 of Article 16 of the Law of Ukraine «On Higher Education». Existing methods of academic staff assessment found in literature do not allow to make judgments about the quality of educational work, or are based on student surveys and therefore incorporate a number of errors introduced by the subjective nature of assessment. The purpose of this work is to develop an objective way to assess the educational work of academic staff in the field of health care. We propose a system for such assessment, which consists of a subsystem of external independent assessment of students’ knowledge, for example in the format of unified state qualifying exams (USQE: «Step-1», «Step-2», «Step-B» etc.), and a subsystem of internal administrative analysis. The internal administrative analysis subsystem combines the results of students who were taught by a particular teacher in a particular discipline, in the relevant USQE subtest using a special formula and adjusts them to the potential of each student, the complexity of the subtest and the total complexity of USQE in that academic year. The proposed system is implemented in the medical faculty of Uzhhorod National University, and the result of the academic staff assessment was discussed at the academic council of the faculty and at the meetings of departments. The application of the developed system provides an objective assessment of the educational work in the field of health care, and the results of its application are a motivating factor in educational activities and can be taken into account during the renegotiation of contracts for academic staff in higher education.

Careful design of study plan is a key element of any successful educational program. Till 2018 Ministry of Health of Ukraine regulated the structure of Pharmacy study plans through the adoption of unified Ministerial study plan. Now the responsibility of educational programs and corresponding study plans design in Ukraine is fully transferred to universities. The purpose of this study is to compare the structure and content of pharmacy study plans in Visegrad Group countries with the most recent unified Pharmacy study plan in Ukraine. Methods. The official documents of Warsaw Medical University, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Charles University, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Comenius University, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Kosice, Semmelweis University and University of Debrecen were studied and data on required courses and corresponding ECTS credits extracted and compared with Ukrainian study plan. Results. Ukrainian unified study plan in Pharmacy pays much more attention to Humanity, Social and Economics section (9 ECTS credits plus 6 ECTS credits of Foreign Language), Computer and IT skills (8 ECTS credits), Hygiene and Ecology (3 ECTS credits), Life Safety, Labor Safety and Bioethics (6 ECTS credits in total), Extreme Medicine and Military Training (6 ECTS credits in total), Toxicological and Forensic Chemistry (4 ECTS credits), Organization and Economics of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Management and Marketing (12 ECTS credits in total) as compared to foreign universities. While natural science courses receive less ECTS credits in Ukraine, and some courses in rapidly evolving sciences like Molecular Biology, Immunology or Clinical Biochemistry are significantly underrepresented. Conclusions. The Pharmacy study plans of Visegrad Group universities show greater similarity with each other and tend to differ from the Ukrainian Ministerial study plan. The necessary steps to harmonize Pharmacy study plans of Ukrainian universities with V4 countries include the introduction of Molecular Biology, Immunology, Clinical Biochemistry courses, and strengthening the basic medical and chemical science courses like Human Anatomy and Physiology, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

The scientific article is devoted to the coverage of international legal acts and standards in European and international practice for the provision of public services as a direction of reforming legal education in Ukraine. The directions of improving domestic legislation on the provision of public services taking into account international legal standards are proposed: the development of the theory of public services, which consists in consolidating conceptual and categorical provisions in the Concept of public services, principles of public services, quality criteria for the provision of public services, and the like; unification of the legal regulation of administrative procedures by adopting the Administrative Procedure Code of Ukraine, which would clearly disclose the issue of providing public services; fixing in the legal acts the types of legal guarantees to ensure the legality of the provision of public services: monitoring the activities of public administration entities on the provision of public services; holding public servants accountable for refusing to provide a certain type of public service; bringing into line with European experience the requirements for adoption, amendment, cancellation and the possibility of appealing individual administrative acts that are the results of the provision of public services; decentralization of power, which consists in justifying an increase in the powers of local authorities in comparison with public authorities.