ECONOMIC SECURITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS ANALYSIS

Abstract

Urgency of the research. Higher education, as a part of ensuring competitiveness and economic security is the most vulnerable link for the challenges of globalization and internal threats that shows a clear need to study the factors of economic security of higher education and develop an appropriate strategy. Target setting. The processes of higher education development nowadays require to study factors (opportunities and threats), which necessitate to develop appropriate methodological grounds. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Economic security issues of higher education were researched by domestic and foreign scientists such as Alymova N. K., Batova V. N., Vahovych I. M., Dmitriev S. M., Mityakov S. N., Plotnikov M. V., Shiryaev M. V. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Managing the economic security of higher education requires the development of methodological basis for analysis of economic security factors of higher education, the algorithm of diagnosis, determination of criteria and limit values of economic security indicators. The research objective. The systematization of the main factors and the development of methodological approaches to assess their overall impact on the level of economic security of higher education. The statement of basic materials. The article has identified the existing problems systematized the factors that most significantly affect the development prospects of higher education in Ukraine. There has also been proposed the use of the coefficient of favorability (unfavorability) of the environment for estimating the cumulative effect. Conclusions. Arrangement and analysis of internal and external factors of higher education economic security creates a basis for preventive and operative warning for undesirable consequences in the development strategy of higher education.