THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT

The article deals with the problem of interpretation of the constitutional and legal terms «right to education» and «right to secondary vocational education». These terms have no legal definition, but are widely used in normative legal acts and scientific literature. The author summarizes the approaches to definition of «education». She concludes that the federal legislator understands education as a good, a process and a result of this process. Basing on an analysis of the federal legislation related to education she proposes a broad and a narrow interpretations of secondary vocational education. Attention is paid to particularities of the right to secondary vocational education. The author’s definition of the constitutional right to secondary vocational education is given.