The Higher Education in Ukraine on its Way Towards Modernization

Abstract

The article is aimed at analyzing modern tendencies of development and reforming of higher education system of Ukraine and determining ways of its modernization. The analysis of dynamics of personnel training in the system of higher education is described, negative tendencies of reduction in the volumes of specialists training, deformation of the training structure on the educational levels, decrease of quality of education and its insufficient compliance with the needs of the economy are discovered. An analysis of the reasons of these tendencies, including worsening of financial support of higher school, is conducted. The progressive shifts in the organization of higher education activities carried out by the government in recent years are systematically discoursed. Proposals as to directions of further development and modernization of higher education for accumulation of human capital are substantiated.

Keywords

• personnel training
• higher education
• human capital
• education financing
• modernization of higher education