Educational Audit as an Imperative of Higher Education Program Competitiveness in the Trans-Border Region

The imperative of competitiveness of higher education programs in trans-border education is relevant to the requirements of international documents on evaluation and ensuring the education quality guarantees. In connection to this, the content of notions “education”, “quality of education”, “trans-border education” act as fundamental factors determining the mission and strategy of development of a higher education institution. The paper describes the activity of the higher education institution in the trans-border region (bordering on China and Mongolia) and its preparation to implementing the international principles and approaches to questions of educational audit, independent evaluation of quality of education, and ensuring the guarantee of quality of higher education in line with the new trends of internal and external assessment of quality of education at higher education institutions.