The article examines the content and the level-based structure of higher education in the Russian Federation through the lens of its place within the system of Russian law and the implementation of constitutional guarantees of the right to education. It analyzes the legal significance of the multi-level model of higher education, the requirements of legal certainty regarding the qualification effects of each level, and the impact of uniform law application and procedural safeguards on the stability of administrative decision-making in the education sector. Special attention is given to higher legal education as a socially significant type of training linked to the rule of law and the quality of legal protection. The study formulates general directions for improving legal regulation aimed at conceptual coherence, predictability of decisions, and strengthening trust in the institution of higher education.
A. A. Nikitenko (Wed,) studied this question.