Efficient system of higher education: The role of state

Abstract

It is proposed to define efficiency as the productivity, which means creation of the necessary and useful products of due quality in the necessary and sufficient amount, at the optimal result/cost ratio. Criteria proposed by the ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation for the estimation of the efficiency of universities are analyzed, as well as the methodological basis of the Thomson Reuters university ranking. It is noted that the efficiency of not only universities, but also the ministry can be estimated only when infrastructural and financial conditions for the efficient work of the university staff are provided and the state goals in the sphere of education are formulated. The ministry should determine the state demand in the sphere of specialist training and provide universities with everything necessary for that, while the universities should duly teach and train those specialists to be. A conclusion is made that national priorities in the field of education and science should be shifted.