Safety and reliability as integral criteria of the educational environment of a modern university

This article examines the problem of building a safe and reliable educational environment in a university that ensures not only the safety of educational subjects, but also the reliability of the entire educational system of the higher education organization. The main approaches to understanding the essence, content and structure of the educational environment of a university are analyzed, the relationships between the concepts of safety, psychological safety, digital educational environment, problems of their mutual influence and interdependence are considered. For the first time, the safety and reliability of the educational environment are considered in their relationship, as properties of a single educational system that ensures the effectiveness of the higher education organization during its reform and a necessary condition for maintaining and improving its quality. The article presents the results of a monitoring study of the satisfaction of educational entities (students, academic staff and employers) with the educational environment of the university, assessments of its safety and reliability, attitudes towards the introduction of innovations into the educational process system, caused by the need to respond to the challenges of modernity and reflecting the advanced scientific developments of domestic pedagogy, correlated with the dialectical unity of the need to achieve mobility of the higher education system, its flexibility and openness to new trends and at the same time ensuring its sustainability and reliability in achieving priority educational goals.