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Urgency of the research. Once Ukraine has joined Bologna process, a lot of scholars started to conduct comparative studies of European educational standards. At the same time American education standards do not get attention they deserve, regardless a fact that it is American Universities often rated in the top in various world ratings. Historically it was the Protestant Branch of Christianity that laid foundational principles even in the world-recognized Universities like Harvard. “Faith-base” educational institutions founded by the Protestants of Ukraine in their early years applied American educational standards. Thus, any research in this area will have scientific novelty by default.

Target setting. Mentioned subject field is not well-researched and that creates an outstanding need to increase co-operation with “faith-based” higher educational institutions, study their best practices and make attempts to scale the best achievements.

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Some individual researchers point out to a fact that although most of Europe’s Universities were once founded by Protestant groups, by 1980 practically none of the Protestant Universities are functioning in Europe. Some researchers point to the typical distortions of the well-known phrase about the “dividing wall between the church and the state” - others describe the unjustified tendency of synonymous use of the terms “secularism” and “atheism”. However, apart from isolated studies of American standards of education quality, virtually no researcher examines the Ukrainian experience of implementing American standards of higher education by domestic Protestants for the purpose of scaling up.

The research objective. Identify basic foundational principles of education laid down by Protestants, recognize their implementation in Ukraine and suggest ways to scale them.

The statement of basic materials. Author is examining three most common typical principles that influenced the educational system of the USA and argues that scaling those principles along with the experience of “faith-based” higher educational institutions may be helpful.

Conclusions. Thus, practically all of the Protestant higher educational institutions were able to demonstrate that it is possible to apply the most valuable principles in Ukrainian realities, such as formation of the higher educational institutions that become providers of high-quality education without subsidy from the State; ability to screen future students during admission and screen faculty without being corrupted; forming responsible and integrated Christian community that interacts with the larger society; uncompromised enactment of the worldview values, keeping schools’ image, constructing adaptive system of education that takes into consideration requests of all the stakeholders of spiritual education. The author argues that everything stated above proves the significance of the further study of the issue with the purpose of scaling the best achievements.

 Keywords: “faith-based” higher educational institutions, education, Protestants, quality of education, stakeholders of education.

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