DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION MARKET BY MEANS OF INTEGRATION MECHANISMS

Abstract

The paper explains the trends of modern development of international economy by means of transformation of institutional processes dominated by educational and scientific components. Herewith, sustainable postcrisis development of national and regional academic systems performs as a paradigm building innovative economy regardless unstable environment. The system updating of education becomes an essential background for rapid economic growth and social development, national security and well-being due to the fact that receiving higher education remains one of the most important human value, key factor of social justice and political stability. At the same time the institutional transformations in national economy, their efficiency and substantive content require practically further major changes in all the branches and local entities. These reforms should focus on making favourable conditions for building efficient innovative institutions and outlooks for national education system at all the levels. The authors consider institutional environment for transformation of the practice-oriented scientific areas, business and education areas to be the important step in protecting the internal infrastructure. Building the institutional models of regional education integration assumes applying the system approach where newly built integrated structure is rendered as a social institution and characterized by the composition, structure, objectives, functions, internal and external limiting bounds, definite inputs and outputs. The authors review the regional educational clusters as an obligatory prerequisite for successful functioning of the regional education system and the regional educational market allowing not only to strengthen co-operative-integrative ties but also coordinating the work of developing branches of the regional economy as a whole.