On the issue of university competitiveness

Abstract

Being one of the most important components of socio-economic development, education is evolving, responding to global transformations taking place in the economic, political, and technological spheres. One of the responses in the field of domestic education to the departure from the command economic system that took place in the 1990s was the emergence in the academic community of the concept of university competitiveness, which has not lost its relevance to the present. The article considers the factors that have the greatest impact on the competitiveness of a university in the current reality, which is closely related to the quality of education. According to the author, the most important place among such factors is occupied by the state quality management of higher education. The opinions expressed about the crisis of Russian higher education are often related to the overburdening of teachers with bureaucratic work, which, of course, is related to the management of higher education by the state and also requires serious analysis. The author's recommendations are aimed at the need to find a reasonable consideration for the interests of all stakeholders of Russian higher education and, above all, employers. It is proposed to focus the attention of regulatory authorities within the framework of state accreditation of universities not only and not so much on formal compliance with the Federal State Educational Standard, but rather on the actual preparedness of graduates for the modern labor market.