Acute Trends in Upgrading the System of Traning University Top Officials in Today’s Conditions

The sphere of university education has been discussed during last decades. A number of experts pointed out, that personnel of Russian universities do not always meet current requirements, in particular it concerns top officials. The article underlines the necessity to develop an efficient system of attestation and qualification upgrading of top officials at higher school and to build a system of selection and development of top official reserve. According to the information of the Report on Pursuing State Policy in the Field of Higher Education and Relative Further Professional Education in the Russian Federation in 2023 the number of universities reached 724, including 227 private ones. At the same time the reserve of top officials of scientific and educational organizations jurisdictional to the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation in 2023 made up 171 persons. From 2021 to 2023 the number of top official reserve made 667 persons. It is evident that the quantity of the reserve is lower that the need of universities. There is another problem, which deals with a drop in the share of university executives without academic degree and people under 50. Thus, we can see that developing methodology of selection and training top officials for universities is a very important objective. The goal of the research is to identify acute problems in training executives for higher education universities that became evident as a result of social and economic changes in today’s Russia.