sphere of higher education

Introduction. In conditions of reforming higher school, developing public relations and extending the market of educating services, the relevant governing relations acquire more complex nature, which requires the comprehensive analysis of the activity of both the bodies of executive power and education institutions in their cooperation. Theoretical analysis. The broad diversity of the theoretical approaches to the understanding of the governing relations in the sphere of higher education and legal relations at universities, and specific features of cooperation between the participants of such relations enables the author to make a number of analogies with service relations. Empirical analysis. The author revealed that the disciplinary legal relations of positive type in the sphere of higher education determine the enhancement of efficiency of the public administration in the sphere of higher education. Results. The multiplicity of administrative legal relations in the sphere of higher education causes the terminological ambiguity in certain issues of the realization of the education programs of higher education. The content of these programs are currently not determined legislatively as providing state services. The existing approach to the legal regulation of control and supervisory relations in the relevant sphere has to be reviewed.