Approaches to listing documents in the field of higher education using the example of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and its subordinate organizations

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation developed a list of documents generated in the course of its activities and the activities of its subordinate organizations in accordance with the Federal legislation and the instructions of the Government of the Russian Federation. This article presents approaches to drafting such a list of documents. The authors show how the current legislation to regulate the activities of higher educational institutions and scientific organizations for the preparation of that list is applied. Historical, comparative and technical legal methods were used as the main research ones. The article gives the historical overview of the adoption of such lists of documents in the USSR and Russia. Also, the authors review the cases of listing documents in some CIS countries. The technical legal method was used to illustrate the relationship between the content of the legal and regulatory statutes of the current legislation and the documents that are included in the draft list of the documents under development. Scientific and methodological approaches to the formation of a section in the list of the documents related to the implementation of educational activities are demonstrated as an outcome of the discussion. The discussion results were used to create a draft listing and can be used when compiling the lists of documents for specific subordinate organizations.

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