Abstract: The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the legal aspects of combating plagiarism in final qualifying works in Russian universities. The norms of federal legislation regulating the organization of the educational process and final certification are examined. The study analyzes the local regulations of universities that establish requirements for the originality of works and plagiarism detection procedures. The powers of universities to identify and suppress plagiarism, including the right to prevent works from being defended and expel students, are disclosed. The rights of students in situations of suspected plagiarism, guarantees of objective assessment, and the possibility of appeal are highlighted. Considerable attention is paid to the technical and methodological problems of checking texts for originality, including the reliability and validity of anti-plagiarism systems, determining the permissible amount of borrowing, and expert evaluation of verification results. The research relies on a comprehensive methodology, including the analysis of legal acts, the study of scientific publications on the problem of plagiarism, and the generalization of the practice of Russian and foreign universities. The work employs methods of legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary analysis, allowing for a comprehensive examination of the problem. The necessity of improving legal regulation at the federal level and in local acts of universities is substantiated. The importance of establishing clear criteria for the originality of works, developing transparent procedures for plagiarism detection, and creating appeal mechanisms to protect students' rights is emphasized. Gaps in the legal regulation of the use of artificial intelligence in writing works and the difficulty of identifying generated texts are revealed. The study of international experience has made it possible to identify best practices that can be adapted to Russian conditions, such as the use of licensed anti-plagiarism systems, the creation of university repositories, and the use of stylometric analysis methods.

Abstract: The proposed study addresses the crucial issue of transforming the system of state control in Russian higher education after the COVID-19 pandemic. We seek to understand how the relationship between the state and educational organizations is changing, paying particular attention to ensuring equal rights and opportunities for private and public universities. Our focus is not only on formal mechanisms for assessing the quality of education but also on their real impact on the lives of students, teachers, and university administrators in the new post-pandemic environment. We consider it critically important to find a balance of interests of all participants in the educational process that would meet the principles of democratic governance of modern education. The need to help universities adapt to the post-pandemic reality while maintaining high quality of education with a reasonable reduction in administrative pressure makes our work particularly relevant. The study applied a comparative legal analysis of the reforms of state control of higher education in 2020-2022, including an assessment of the initial goals and achieved results. The article offers for the first time a holistic view of how the reform of the state control in higher education helps universities adapt to the post-pandemic reality. The results of the work show that the changes made have significantly facilitated the life of educational organizations, freeing them from excessive bureaucracy and administrative obstacles that hindered recovery after the pandemic. We are pleased to note that universities can now focus on really improving the quality of education, rather than on formal compliance with numerous requirements. It is especially important that the new control system takes into account the modern realities of the digital transformation of education and the post-pandemic peculiarities of the work of universities.

Abstract: The subject of this article is the transformation of the system of state regulation of higher education and, in particular, the procedures for state accreditation of educational activities. The reform of the system of state accreditation of educational activities creates a number of opportunities for the management teams of educational institutions of higher education. The article presents an assessment of how the new law enforcement practice can affect the quality management of education in higher education institutions based on the analysis of current regulatory legal acts and new legislation. For this purpose, general scientific and special legal methodology (formal legal, comparative legal) was used in the research process. The novelty of the research lies in the application of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the subject, in combining the results of the analysis of normative legal acts with an assessment of the impact of law enforcement practice on the management system of organizations of higher education and new opportunities to improve the quality of educational programs. At the same time, the conclusion is made about the possibility of greater concentration of teams of organizations on improving the quality of educational programs due to the reduction of the bureaucratic burden on the teaching staff.