Impact of academic revolution on higher education institutions of Russian Federation in conditions of knowledge global economy development

Abstract

The purpose of the article examines the impact of the academic revolution on individual universities in the Russian Federation in the context of modern economic development. It has been established that in the system of higher education for all countries of the world, the turbulence and chaos of the environment leads to the fact that organizations that do not use effective change management tools are on the way to decline and disappear. In this regard, the key importance of the analysis of one of the global modern trends – the academic revolution, as a prerequisite for the development of such tools, is emphasized. Four different universities of the Russian Federation were analyzed in terms of the impact on them of the basic contradiction of the academic revolution: the components of the massization of higher education and the high demands of the knowledge economy regarding the results of educational and research activities.

Keywords

• academic revolution
• knowledge economy
• global trends
• university