EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM MANAGEMENT: STATUS, TRENDS, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

The current stage of development of education in Russia, characterized by the continuation of reforms and intense innovation processes, require essential changes in management. It takes not only a revision of the paradigmatic foundations of such management, but also the adoption of complex measures for improving its efficiency, and reducing excessive centralization. The aim of the present publication is to study the status and prospects of education management in the Russian Federation. Negative tendencies and contradictions in modern management of education and educational systems, including problems of differentiation of the rights, competences and powers of bodies of various levels of management are revealed. The condition of education management is considered in the context of common problems of its modernization and key innovative vectors of development of the society. Detailed analysis of paradigmatic foundations of management is carried out; its systemacity and balance are presented from the positions of management members and a specific variety of the functions realized by them. System-genetic foundations of management, its recurrence, compliance with the principles of system inheritance are analysed; effectiveness, equifinality, management efficiency in its social, economic, pedagogical and organizational measurements are studied. Scientific novelty concludes in the reasons identification of a gap between the proper and existing management of an educational system. The perspective directions of improvement of this field are singled out. Promising directions for improving this industry are outlined (development and implementation of a training program for a new generation of managers, a new model of building a managerial career in the field of education; actualization of the issue of management quality, implementation of a scientific approach to assessing its quality, including the use of the potential and achievements of management qualimetry, expert, taxonomic, index, probabilistic-statistical and other special sectiзрозуміло ons; development and adoption of a number of regulatory legal acts, by-laws that determine the construction and application of the National Education Quality Assurance System; application of the simulation modeling mechanism in strategic management, at the stage of elaboration and initiation of major (significant) changes in education, educational systems; application of the potential of functional modeling, IDEF functional modeling methodology, especially if it is about the reconstruction (reengineering) or replacement of existing or design of new systems and organizational mechanisms; the use of a moratorium on changes, the cancellation of adopted management decisions in connection with the duration of certain cycles (primarily the cycle of training students at a particular level of education); the development and adoption of a standard as a regulatory legal document quality of management of educational organizations of general, vocational and additional education).