The Inequality of Access as a Risk to the Economic Security of Ukraine’s Higher Education System

Abstract

The article is aimed at researching the factors that cause inequality of access to higher education and defining their impact on the economic security of higher education. Analyzing the conceptual documents and policy recommendations in the sphere of higher education, generalizing the scientific work of other scholars, two approaches to measuring inequality of access to higher education are considered: primary and deferred. Separate factors of inequality of primary and deferred access to higher education are allocated. The influence of factors of inequality of primary access on the economic security of higher education in Ukraine is determined. Prospect for further research in this direction is elaboration of such separate components of the risk of inequality of access to higher education as the ambiguity of achieving the goal by different social groups; probability of receiving losses; possibility of deviation from the chosen target; probability of achievement of the desired result; attitude toward risk of a particular individual and of society as a whole.

Keywords

• higher education
• factors of inequality
• economic security of higher education