The Concept, Content and Legal Status of Contracts for the Provision of Educational Services

The paper examines the main features of the order and rules of conclusion, execution and termination of contracts for the provision of educational services concluded by educational organizations with students (learners) or their legal representatives, as well as the concept, content and legal nature of this type of civil contracts. The subject of the study is the relationship arising between the parties to contracts for the provision of educational services. The article analyzes the problematic issues of civil and legal security of learners in the process of implementation of contracts for the provision of educational services; features of the emergence of tort liability of an educational organization in respect of learners (legal representatives); coordination of measures to protect learners and ensure their safety, etc. In the course of the study, the following main conclusions were made that, first, the text of the agreement on education should provide the following basic rules for the safety of students, noting that both the educational organization and the student (his parents, legal representative) participate in the implementation of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the field of security and, secondly, in the process of implementing this state policy, the parties to the agreement undertake to fulfill the requirements for security in General and, including when carrying out fire-fighting, anti-terrorist, anti-extremist, anti-criminal, spiritually-morally-safe, information-safe, environmental, including medico-biological, safe food and nutritional, radiation-safe, toxic-pharmacologically safe (including prevention of the use of psychologically-active substances), psychological-pedagogical (including ideological stability), sanitary-epidemiological, energy-safe, electric-safe and other measures.

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