Regional higher education systems and sustainable regional economic development: functional approach

摘要

Sustainable and competitive regional development as a response to global challenges is significantly determined by quality of workforce and reginal educational system. The aim of this research is to develop the methodology for quantitative assessment of functioning efficiency and implementation of regional higher education systems basing on the functional approach. This study allows to assess functional dynamics, structure and implementation volume of basic functions of regional higher education systems. Comparison between the results obtained in various regions of the Russian Federation demonstrates high levels of differentiation and polarization of basic functions implementation and enables to draw conclusions concerning the balance of regional higher education systems and their correlation with regional economic system development.