Kholiavko N. Strategy for Ensuring the Adaptability of the Higher Education System to the Information Economy Conditions

The thesis is devoted to the research of theoretical, methodological and methodical principles of development and implementation of the strategy for ensuring the adaptability of the higher education system to the information economy conditions. From the standpoint of the systematic approach, the economic nature of the higher education is investigated, and its role in the processes of development the information economy is determined. Main challenges of the information economy to the national higher education system are highlighted. The essence and characteristic features of adaptability of the higher education system to the conditions of the economy informatization are revealed; based on the synthesis of synergistic and institutional approaches, methodological aspects of ensuring the adaptability of such a system are formulated, with the identification of relevant laws and principles. A three-block methodology for assessing the level of the information economy development, aimed at analyzing the baseline of upgrading the higher education system based on statistical method, are produced; determination of the dynamics of a complex integral index – on the basis of index method; conducting of the meso-economic analysis by educational, research, innovative components of the information economy development – on the basis of cluster method.