PROBLEMS AND WAYS OF MODERNIZATION OF NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Modern innovative economy, which is based on advanced technology and intellectual work, requires specialists with different competence level. Training of such specialists takes place in higher educational establishments of different levels and degrees. The article deals with an attempt to analyse current state and problems of national higher school. This analysis is done according to statistic data and structural changes in higher school have also been taken into account. We analyse dynamic of higher educational establishmentsʼ number of I – IV levels of accreditation, contingent of students, and quality of scientific and pedagogical staff in recent 25 years. The article also determines other problems that cause forming of elemental market of educational service. The reasons of successful modernization of higher school have been determined. They are following: 1) high level of development of pedagogical science, mature psychological and pedagogical staff and their cooperation with other scientists, humanistic character and practice promoting national educational content and its eagerness to provide unity of education, upbringing and development; 2) developed scientific research in higher school, successful methodology in training scientific and pedagogical specialists, efficient forms of educational and scientific processes integration; 3) application of efficient innovations of content, methods and organization in national higher educational establishments and also the opportunity to spread these innovations with the means of nationally aimed programs and systems of qualification improving for scientific and pedagogical specialists and university managers. We propose priority of modernization of national educational system, which should meet the requirements of modern life and become the efficient resource of constant development of Ukraine: 1) to provide equal possibilities for all society groups to get qualificative higher education; 2) to improve educational environment, to create proper conditions to get education on all levels; 3) to realize the idea of «education during the whole life» in practice; 4) to realize principle of education which is focused on a student; 5) stable integration of education and scientific research; 6) further internationalization and mobility in educational and scientific activity; 7) to widen rights, freedom and autonomy of universities; 8) to realize cooperation in the system «university – manufacturing»; 9) to control the quality of education on European level; 10) to provide proper salary and social protection for scientific and pedagogical workers