Improving a procedure for determining the factors that influence the need of higher education institutions for specialists of the highest qualification

Oleksandr Maistrenko,Alexander Kornienko,Yurii Olshevskyi,Andrii Shcherba,Yurii Pereverzin,Oleksandr Shatilo,Vitalii Khoma,Andriy Maneliyk,Oleh Popkov

doi:10.15587/1729-4061.2022.251027

Abstract

A method for calculation of coefficients of the impact of factors on the need for specialists of the highest qualification was proposed. The method is based on expert evaluation methods, in particular, on determining the importance, degree of realization, and tendency of factors that affect the need for highly qualified specialists. The method implements the unit of data reliability verification based on the Kendall coefficient of concordance and Pearson criterion. The method applies an original approach to determining the competence of experts, in particular, by taking into consideration self-evaluation, mutual evaluation, and objective evaluation. The proposed method makes it possible to take into account the influence of factors on the need for specialists of the highest qualification with the possibility of forecasting. The totality of factors that influence the need for specialists of the highest qualification and the magnitude of their impact was determined. They were determined by calculating the indicators of each of the criteria regarding importance, realization, and tendency. Determining was carried out using the algorithm for calculating the coefficients of influence of the factors on the need for specialists of the highest qualification. In general, the following groups of factors were determined: conditions of scientific and scientific-pedagogical activity at a certain institution of higher education, the attractiveness of scientific and scientific-pedagogical activity in a certain country (region), development of industry (speciality). A group of 30 experts was selected to determine the numerical values of the factors, which satisfies the condition for achieving a confidence probability of 0.94. The results of the evaluation of expert judgments revealed that the most influential factors are: social protection (0.87), budget for higher education (0.99), remuneration (0.9), and prestige of scientific and pedagogical activities (0.91). The least influential are: the number of primary positions in the area (0.48) and self-realization opportunities at a higher education institution (0.58).

Highlights

The transformation of higher education in recent years has led to the intellectualization and development of scientific, academic, and teaching staff (ATS) in accordance with the best world trends. This leads to an improvement in the quality of higher education and, as a result, the mobility of students of higher education. This causes an increase in staff turnover, because the ATS with the competencies that meet the demands of the global labor market, as a rule, are not “linked” to a certain higher education institution (HEI)”
This applies to the countries with different economic development, culture, attitude to higher education, for example, such problems exist in the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, South Africa, Ukraine, and some other countries
The purpose of the study is to improve the procedure for determining the factors that affect the need of higher education institutions for specialists of the highest qualification, taking into consideration regional, sectoral characteristics and specific features of higher education institutions

Summary

Introduction

The transformation of higher education in recent years has led to the intellectualization and development of scientific, academic, and teaching staff (ATS) in accordance with the best world trends. One of the main scientific problems that arises in the implementation of these approaches is the difficulty of predicting the need for the number of specialists with higher qualifications to meet the internal needs of higher education institutions This problem is caused by the lack of an effective scientific and methodological apparatus to determine the predicted need for highly qualified specialists taking into consideration regional, sectoral characteristics and the specific features of higher education institutions. The absence of this apparatus is due to the complexity of formalization and determining of the factors that affect the shortage of the ATS at the HEI after a certain time. The research into the factors that affect the turnover of specialists of the highest qualification will make it possible to reasonably predict the need for such specialists

Literature review and problem statement

The aim and objectives of the study

The study materials and methods

15 Verification of experts’

Objective evaluation Averaged value

Conclusions