Internal Resources to Improve the Quality of Higher Education

• Main Author: Tatyana V. Zak
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Academic Publishing House Researcher 2016-03-01
• Series: Evropejskij Issledovatelʹ
• Subjects: internal resources; externalresources; collective reputation; opportunistic behavior; credence goods; the average duration of study; technology of the educational process
• Online Access: http://www.erjournal.ru/journals_n/1458849868.pdf
• ISSN: 2219-8229; 2224-0136

The article deals with the situation in the Russian higher education system. The factors affecting the improvement of the quality of higher education are analyzed. The emphasis is on mass universities. The main obstacles to improving the quality of education in these institutions are the Institute of collective reputation and the high costs of the struggle for improving the quality of education.The necessity of focusing on the actuation of the internal resources to improve the quality associated with the change in the educational process: giving students the right to choose the timing exams and training period at university. The implementation of the proposed measures will reduce the opportunity costs associated with quality improvement activities. The proposed change in the organization of the learning process opens the possibility to estimate the activity of universities in terms of medium-term implementation of educational programs. The use of this indicator will not only combine the two different targets of universities, but also to minimize the costs of opportunistic behavior of teachers and management.