Legal Aspects of LLL

Educational processes accompany an individual for all his life: from the prenatal period, when the expectant mothers undergo training in the medical institutions; it continues in the pre-school institutions; develops during secondary school education for all; is carried out at a higher level in the system of institutions of higher education for those capable to this process. After the university graduation and job placement education is provided in three areas: professional training, access to the second higher education through the system of government and non-government educational institutions and self-education. Legal securing of the educational process according to all these areas is of great importance. The article presents an analysis of the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation”, the principles and goals of each educational stage. It emphasises both the peculiarities and problems of the disable children education. The article contains the survey data of the first year students on their school knowledge awareness. The issues on lifelong learning stipulated by the Federal law “On Education” together with the problems left unregulated by the law in question are under the authors’ consideration.