Digital Transformation of the Administrative and Legal Mechanism for Implementing Continuing Professional Education Programs: the Concept of «FIS FRDO 2.0»

Introduction. This article analyzes the limitations of the current legal model for the Federal Information System for Information on Education and/or Qualification Documents (FIS FRDO) in implementing continuing professional education programs. Based on the author's analysis of Article 76 of Federal Law No. 273-FZ "On Education in the Russian Federation," its bylaws, and law enforcement practices, it is shown that the combination of definitional inconsistencies in regulating continuing professional education and the structural gap in the control framework are exacerbated by the passive, registration-based nature of the FIS FRDO. As a result, the educational document verification system operates effectively only post-factum and fails to prevent practices of fictitious education and the issuance of documents to individuals without the necessary basic education. At the same time, the FIS FRDO has significant untapped potential for preventive control of admission to DPO programs and verification of compliance of learning outcomes with qualification requirements, which necessitates the theoretical justification and normative design of the FIS FRDO 2.0 model as an independent element of the administrative-legal mechanism for the implementation of continuing professional education programs.

Materials and methods. The study is based on an analysis of Federal Law № 273-FZ «On Education in the Russian Federation», bylaws governing the Federal Information System of the Russian Federation for Educational Development, the Regulation on the Licensing of Educational Activities, legislation on state control (supervision), and case law. Formal legal, comparative legal, institutional, and legal modeling methods were used.

Research results. It was discovered that, in its current configuration, the Federal Information System for Advanced Education (FIS FRDO) performs accounting, legitimizing, and verification functions for already issued documents, without participating in decisions regarding admission to continuing education programs or ensuring that students' basic education complies with qualification requirements. The concept of «FIS FRDO 2.0» was formulated, including a profile-based admission filter based on broad groups of training areas, a mechanism for cross-verification of basic and continuing education data, a module for automatically identifying anomalies («red flags»), and a standardized definition of time limits for retrospective data coverage.

Discussion and conclusion. This paper demonstrates how the integration of the "FIS FRDO 2.0" into the licensing and federal government oversight framework allows for overcoming the structural gap in the control framework for continuing professional education (CPE), identified in law enforcement practice, and strengthening the connection between program outcomes and the qualification regimes of individual sectors.

The paper also substantiates the directions for the phased regulatory consolidation of the proposed model, aimed at strengthening preventive oversight of the integrity of continuing professional education programs while maintaining the necessary level of autonomy.

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