Strategic development of higher education in Ukraine

Abstract

Realization of active long-term reformation of higher education in Ukraine promoted of getting corresponding results and consequences, that was represented on its modern state. The analysis of these changes allows to investigate existent tendencies that were in development of higher education of Ukraine for the ground of its further prospects. Methodology of this research is totality of theoretical and scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, comparison, theoretical and logical generalization, prognostication. The existent position of Ukraine in the different rating that belong to the estimation of higher education of the country is analysed. On the basis of statistical and analytical materials of Government statistical service of Ukraine, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Ukrainian institute of scientific and technical and economic information is investigated the tendencies that the modern state of higher education of Ukraine is characterized during the period of 2010-2016: the high level of higher education availability among the population, reduction of higher educational establishments, preparation of specialists in the fields of knowledge, preparation of foreign students of highereducational establishments in Ukraine in the cut of countries. Educed problems of higher education are: low level of state financing, nonappropriateness of the distribution system of government order to the queries of labour-market and country’s progress, increase of educational migration trends. Reasons of educational migration and negative factors that assisted on it are investigated. The prognosis of quantity of potential university entrants of higher educational establishments to 2034 to on the basis of index of birth-rate and actual value of middle amount of entrants to higher educational establishments during the period of 2007-2017, that testifies the positive prospects for the set of potential students.The necessity for further reformation of higher education with the aim of providing of high level of quality of education on the basis of OECD indicators in relation to education and introduction of norms, standards and basic principles of European higher education are described.