Prospects of cultural and artistic education in the context of the education legislation reforming
Under the conditions of reforming the education in Ukraine determination of art education speci fics in the current legislation is presented as an urgent matter. The article highlights a number of problems in the field of cultural and artistic education (its staff, forms of train-ing at different levels of the educational system, etc.) that need to be resolved in the nearest future. The draft law “On education” is analyzed, which, as one will expect, must to launch a large-scale implementation of educational reforms and will legislate new standards of specialized art education. In particular, the revolutionary innovation of the bill is the introduction of the training system for Doctors of Art and the relevant scientific degree that will be an analogue of the degree of “Doctor of Philosophy”, which is awarded to scientists of foreign countries.