Necessity of public and private partnership in higher education

Abstract

The article proves that economic and technological development of the country is impossible without the intellectual capacity that mostly focuses on higher institutions. The problem of Russian institutions competitiveness in the education market is very urgent now. Business community criticizes higher institutions for their not following industrial, economic and social processes. Employers got used they received young professionals with no investment in young staff development. The business sector doesn’t help and invest in the development of students professional skills and abilities, doesn’t participate in the government order, curricula and standards. To change this attitude to higher education it is necessary to understand that progress and development of higher education is impossible without information support, technological support and finance from the part of business. Government shifts financial, economic and social problems on higher institutions; therefore these responsibilities lye upon students and their parents shoulders. At the same time it is Government that gives instructions to higher institutions in respect of educational standards and “criteria” of running. To the author ’s mind, it is high time for higher education to arrange Educational Alliance or public and private partnerships (P 3) in educational area among authorities, higher institutions and business industry. It is time to reconsider consumer policy of employers and controlling regulation policy of authorities in relation to higher institutions. The author underlines that industrial training and employer-sponsored education of student can be the elements of the approach.