HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS OF STUDY: COMPETITION IN EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL CONTEXTS

Abstract

One of the most important competitive advantages Russia has is the high percentage of well-educated people in the country. Maintaining and supporting the changing world of education within the framework of the Bologna Declaration should become a prerequisite for the sustainable social and economic development. The country development should be guided by a pattern where the priorities are the scientific products practical implementation and the elaboration and use of new technologies and the new knowledge. The Russian economy and the Russian society members cannot become competitive without the education and science development. The sectors' development is the key factor in the knowledge economy development based on the intellectual effort. That is why the universities should make their institutions increasingly attractive to their services users and provide the guarantees of employability on the labor market to their graduates.