HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM: FROM QUANTITY TO QUALITY
M. A. Abramova1, V. V. Krasheninnikov2
1Institute of Philosophy and Law of SB RAS, 630090, Russia, Hovosibirsk, st. Hikolaeva, 8
2Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, 630126, Russia, Hovosibirsk, st. Vilyiiskaya, 28
Keywords: оценка эффективности университетов, количественные и качественные показатели, экстенсивное и эволюционное развитие системы образования, массовизация высшего образования, evaluation of effectiveness of universities, the quantitative and qualitative, extensive and evolutionary development of the system of education, mass character of higher education
Abstract
The authors analyze the use of quantitative indicators from the point of view of possibilities of adequate reflection of the improvement of efficiency of universities. We discuss various quantitative parameters: the number of incoming students who graduate and more, the dependence of this indicator on the demographic characteristics of the region, the number of the university graduates and the share of population with higher education to estimate human capital of the country, the number of the entered to the University winners of competitions, the number of teachers with a degree and the specifics of their accounting depending on the primary place of work or part-time, cooperation with scientific institutions in the region, migration flows and other indicators. The authors come to conclusion that the socio-economic situation in the country and the use of quantitative indicators to assess the effectiveness of universities leads to increasing the mass character of education. Education, fulfilling the role of a social lift, becomes a mandatory social-cultural resource. To save the potential of the Russian education system, and the higher education in particular, it is important to review the emphasis in the performance indicators of the education system from quantitative to qualitative. This will create the preconditions not for extensive, but for evolutionary development of the education system. One of the evidences of manifestation of this trend is the increased competition between universities for talented graduates in the market of intellectual labor, creation of a «portrait» of the school graduate, studying the educational strategies chosen by them. Improving the quality of scientific and methodological training of the teaching staff of the universities is also of strategic nature, as well as preserving cooperation of research institutions in the region, and the review of the role of universities in shaping socio-economic development strategies of the regions.
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