Current Problems of the Higher Education Development in the Russian Federation Considering the Digitalization Processes

Abstract

The authors of this article single out the main characteristic of the digital economy---the constantly changing volume of information, as a result of which the need to thoroughly disseminate digital technologies meant to stimulate the formation of new ways and methods of property management, the growth of the industry efficiency and the development of the economy as a whole arises.The article remarks on one of the most significant drawbacks of the digital economy---reducing a significant number of jobs, which can later lead to some serious threats to the economic security of the state such as the increase in polarization of the populace incomes, which can result in strengthening of social tensions, the disappearance of a number of professions, which will inevitably lead to an increase in unemployment rate, which, in its turn, will contribute to the growth of crime.Currently, when the system of university education is undergoing colossal changes, the questions of digitalization of universities' business and organizational communication processes are the topics of particular interest to both the students and their employees. The topicality of the problem is based on the need to analyze current practices in organizational communications and approaches to creation and development of policies and strategies of introduction of digitalization elements in higher education organizations aimed at ensuring their competitiveness in the globalized world.The goal of this work lies in systematization of current issues in the higher education sphere in the Russian Federation and development of measures of education system development in Russia considering the digitalization processes.The authors of this article regard the following as main issues preventing the educational system development:• insufficient financing of the educational system;• commercialization of higher education;• low prestige of secondary education and secondary special education.