Challenges and opportunities of the transformation of the economy of education in the model of post-war reconstruction of Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the evaluating of prospects for the Ukrainian education economy qualitative transformation in the process of postwar recovery. In particular, the propensity of the Ukrainian population to invest in raising the level of education is assessed and the preferences for educational formats are specified, as an important prerequisite for updating the structure of higher education’s funding sources and the relative system of motives and incentives to increase its economic efficiency. The initial information was obtained based on the results of a sample survey conducted among the population of Ukraine affected by the war. The theoretical basis of the work was researches devoted to determining the role of the accumulation of human capital in the processes of expanding and updating the structure of national production. A high potential of expanding the solvent demand for short-term training programs, which will be provided with the active participation of potential employers, has been revealed, because 33.0% of the total number of respondents plan to change their profession, which mainly causes additional demand for educational services.