The article describes the experience of managing the development of scientific and innovation activities at federal and national research universities within the framework of their development programs implementation and gives examples of the best practices in upgrading innovation activity. On the basis of comparative analysis of and synthesis authors demonstrate the results of those universities and their positioning in the international scientific and innovation environment. As a result of implementing development program leading universities got a unique opportunity to create material ad technical base for modern personnel training and generating new knowledge and technological innovation. Institutional changes have led to significant development of their innovation infrastructure: creation of innovation technological centers, technology transfer centers, business - incubators, design and technological agencies, experimental manufacturing companies, techno parks, small innovation enterprises and other structures. In order to meet the needs of industry universities started forming engineering centers whose potential is actively used within the framework of federal technological platforms and innovation company development programs with the participation of the state. As a result of scientific research growth staff of federal and national research universities significantly increased its publishing activities, causing major promotion in international ratings. Authors demonstrate that creation of federal and national research universities can be called a successful managerial innovation in the system of national higher education. The article contains recommendations for national higher educational institutions aimed at upgrading efficacy of their involvement in innovation development of regions and industrial branches.

In order to solve tasks related to managing highly qualified scientific personnel we need to have quantitative figures for such specialists in terms of territories, types of economic activities, affiliation and scientific specialization. Statistical reporting system does not have required data in necessary detail. Specific feature of thesis research allows for suggesting a corellation between professional and qualificational structure of personnel with candidate and doctoral theses and professional and qualificational structure of specialists working in the same environment. In order to test this hypothesis we used data on the number of candidate and doctoral theses defended during 2009-2014; number of staff members with academic degrees at higher educational institutions under the supervision of Ministry for Eucation and Science; number of specialists with academic degres in different branches in academic institutions. Analysis of share of specialists with candidate and doctoral degrees according to academic branches and share of candidate and doctoral degree holders at educational institutions under the supervision of Ministry for Education and Science has demonstrated such correlation. The same analysis was conducted for researchers from scientific organizations: institutes of Academy of Sciences, research institutions, design agencies, scientific and manufacturing structures and companies. Therefore a hypothesis of correlation between the structure of thesis defense structure and the professional and qualificational structure of personnel in these organizations was proven. Therefore on the basis of theses defense structure we can recreate professional and qualificational structure of staff members with academic degrees on the basis of integral meaning of their numbers. We calculated the share of staff members of all higher educational institutions in the Russian Federation and those institutions under supervision of the Ministry for Health Care and Ministry for Agriculture according to quantitave structure degree holders working in those structures. Suggested methods allow for evaluating academic potential of the region. Knowing the number of candidates and doctors of science in the region according to the population census, the structure of theses holders employed at organizations of the region we can get absolute numbers for candidates and doctors in each scientific specialization. As an example we made calculations for two regions of the Russian Federation: Republic of Tatarstan and Krasnodar region. Recreated professional and qualificational structure allows for evaluating scientific potential of the territory, prognosticating the need for highly qualified scientific personnel and is a basis for forming enrollment reference numbers for postgraduate courses in terms of branches and territories. The article is of interest for researchers and practitioners in the field of highly qualified scientific personnel management.

This article is of a conceptual nature and is aimed at identifying certain barriers to forming research universities in Russia. The article demonstrates that research activities that were traditionally considered as supplementary at Russian higher educational institutions can not develop until we solve the problem with the workload balance for teaching staff. At present this balance at Russian universities is considerably distorted in favor of exessive in-class teaching hours. In-class hours for lecturers that form overall workload balance can be radically decreased if Russian universities adopt an international practice based on students' independent mastering of material, managed and supervised by lecturers. The same organizational and methodical solution would allow for increasing the student-lecturer ratio as recommended by the Ministry for Education and Science. The article gives examples from performance criteria of Russian and foreign universities. Originality of the suggested approach is in the destruction of a stereotype rooted in the system of higher education in Russia which relates long required decrease of in-class hours for lecturers to the growth of teaching staff numbers and decreased student-lecturer ratio.

The article is prepared on the basis of analysis of activities of Penza higher educational institutions conducted in 2013-2014 by the Chair of Management, Penza State University of Architecture and Engineering. It is devoted to the topic of training pedagogical staff for higher educational institutions. Forming professionally competent and pedagogically trained teaching staff is the most important mission of higher educational institution essential for quality of specialist training in higher education. The article is aimed at identifying motives for choosing pedagogical career and defining ways of organizing the work with specialists starting their career as a lecturer at higher educational institutions. Achieving this aim is related to analyzing modern requirements to quality and lecturer's competencies, identifying motives for choosing pedagogical career by lecturers participating in the research, formulating ways of forming pedagogical skills among young lecturers as well as evaluating the involvement of university, department and chair into training future lecturers in the context of absence of such a system on the national level. The article provides several lecturer activity monitoring results that allow for drawing conclusions concerning main motives for choosing pedagogical work (ability to teach and desire to conduct research), difference of motives among lecturers with different work experience and presence of an academic degree. The article analyses attractive aspects of position of a lecturer, including creative self - realization arising from combination of pedagogical activities and research. The article looks into difficulties related to upgrading professional level of young lecturers and the experience of solving this problem at PSUAE: target training of graduate and postgraduate students willing to become lecturers, their intensive involvement into the world of future professional activities. The article also identifies and describes possible ways of entering pedagogical profession and forming professional competences and skills of young lecturers.

This article is of a conceptual type and represents the result of one of the stages of research concentrated on the development of regional university as an active participant of regional economic system and specific features of human resources management at higher educational institutions. The article represents conceptual approach to the problem of ageing in the university management system and analyses not only radical reflection of ageing but also attempts at preserving continuity of generations in academic sphere. The article looks into generation problem and attempts to under-stand whether gerontocracy is a cause or a consequence of the situation existing in higher education and what can be done about it. The reasons behind writing the article is that despite seemingly evident solution - favouring younger staff members, in-depth study of the topic demonstrates that solution to this problem should be more delicate than just enrolling young specialists. As the article shows the reason for that is the specific character of academic community and peculiar features of career trajectories in higher education. The research identifies existing career trajectories in higher education and analyses different generation - related factors influencing their effective implementation (including entrepreneurial career, a new career trajectory for national universities). Attention is paid to mentorship which fully represents specific traits of academic community with necessary generation continuity. Among the article outcomes there is a set of suggested gerontocracy overcoming mechanisms such as development of reputation mechanisms; development and improvement of mentorship mechanism which should be viewed as the development of the system of older generation involvement into the life of the university; regulation of age limitations for all administrative positions in the higher education system. Limitations for research process can be as follows: career trajectories are seldom separated from each other and one trajectory usually dominates. Nevertheless managerial perversions (such as gerontocracy) in one of the career trajectories can have direct influence on efficacy of another trajectory, particularly in the case of administrative positions (administrator-researcher). Understanding specific features of multiple career trajectories and danger of managerial perversions should be considered in university staff policy as well as in personnel enrollment and development programs that should be aimed both at social elevation mobilization for younger specialists and preservation of university traditions and cultural environment which is impossible without mentorship system development. The article analyses career trajectories at the university with the reflection of academic community peculiarities. The article emphasises negative consequences of managing university setting limitations for young talanted generation. Such things as dissemination of rating stipends and corporate grants among "insiders", lobbying "insiders'" projects within the framework of federal and regional programs lead to factual inefficacy of such events.

The article belongs to research category and deals with the analysis of educational statistics on student currents including young people enrolling into universities, colleges and professional technical schools of the Russian Federation. The aim of the article is to describe and analyze new balance between student currents in higher and secondary professional education as well as the consequences for higher educational university development strategies related to the changes of the balance. The main research method used in the article is the analysis of statistic data dynamic sets related to student enrollment to professional education programs. The main result of the research is the conclusion on the achieved balance of students choosing secondary and higher professional education programs during the period of 2001-2014. Data provided in the article allow for making a conclusion that in the coming years student characteristics would play a much more important restrictive role in implementing university and college development strategies than financial resources. The novelty of the article is related to treating student currents as a specific type of managerial resource that is gaining an essential role for professional education institutions in the context of demographic crisis.

This article is a research one and is aimed at: а) demonstrating logical links between the growth of international university ratings, education quality and country success; b) design methods of university rating growth cost calculation and c) give university managers a tool for possible alterations in rating improvement strategies and prognosticating the costs of it. In order to achieve the first target we used logical analysis: creation of logical links between improving quality of education, univeristy rating growth, country performance and other factors. In order to achieve the second aim we used a) methods of performance criteria decomposition for "university competitiveness level" and logical method of analysing links between this criteria and the cost of rating improvement; b) induction method: transfer from single average effort to the cost of university rating improvement. The third aim is practical and is a consequence of achieving the second aim. In order to provide foundation for article results authors conducted analysis of positive and negative aspects of each of the two suggested methods of defining costs of rating improvement with the aim of identifying the most perspective one. Authors demonstrate the impossibility of finding a simple solution by means of creating one-factor mathematical and statistical model for costs of improving university international rating. Limitations to the conducted research are as follows: a) in order to use the first suggested method you need to make efforts in objective formation of similar universities pool; b) in order to use the second method you need certain amount of time to accumulate data on university participation in development program. Practical importance of the research is that university managers get a tool for defining and altering university development strategy; prognosticate costs of university development; designing different models of costs spread for perspective years; the choice of optimal development strategy with minimal costs. Novelty and originality of the article is in the following aspects: a) new task setting (calculating university rating improvement costs); b) two new original fundamentally diferent approaches and methods of solving that task; c) introduction of new notions: "university competitiveness level", "single average (very average) university effort in rating improvement per one position, coefficient of efforr increase depending on the number of competing universities; effort decrease depending on university starting point; university ambitions decrease; overcoming solid leading group".

Managerial decision - making in higher education in Russia and some of its regions requires complete, precise and relevant information about the current state of higher education system. An important and the most precise source of information on Russian higher educational institutions activities at the present moment is the database of Higher education organization efficacy monitoring. The aim of this research article is to give a qualitative description of higher education system in the Asian part of Russia according to the set of characteristics on the basis of efficacy monitoring results for 2014. The result of the research allow for subdividing higher educational organizations in the region under analysis into groups on the basis of such characteristics as status, legal form, type of activity, student number and branch affiliation. The authors conduct the analysis of territorial positioning of higher educational institutions and spread of students among different types of organizations and specializations. Authors use descriptive methods of quantitative data analysis. According to the results of the research state higher educational institutions in the Asian part of Russia are usually situated in major cities and teach the majority of students. Smaller towns usually host private higher educational institutions or remote branches. More than a half of higher educational institutions in the region are remote branches (58 %) that teach only 11.2 % of the total number of students. Majority of educational institutions fall under the control of Russian Federation Ministry for Education and Science (42 %). They teach 69 % of the total number of students. There is a considerable number of private higher educational institutions (27 %) but they teach only 4% of the total student number. Higher education institutions in the region train students in 28 specializations. Economics and management is the most popular with 23.2 % of the total number of students. This specialization is taught at 84 % of all the higher educational institutions. About 90 % of private educational institutions offer only two specializations: Economics and management and Humanities. Educational institutions affiliated with different branches of economy usually conduct training in the relevant specializations. For example higher educational institutions related to the Russian Federation Ministry of agriculture train 92 % of all the students in the region studying specialization "Agriculture and fish resources". Russian Federation Ministry for Health care and social development educational institutions train 91 % of students studying medicine. The region rich in mineral and natural resources has developed branches related to mining and processing. At the same time specializations related to these field are studied by about 3 % of the total number of students in the region. There is a noticeable excess of specialists in humanities and economics. This article is one of the first attempts to describe the higher education system state in this major geographical region on the basis of efficacy monitoring data. Earlier researches had a more general description of monitoring results, gave detailed analysis of its data for one particular region or were devoted to discussion and criticism of the procedure. Materials presented in the article can be of interest for researchers and analytics working in the educational sphere as well as university heads and representatives of executive bodies of the Russian Federation territories dealing with education.

The article is of a research type and is devoted to the analysis of qualitative changes in the main parameters of higher professional education system in Russia as a result of managerial decisions. It seems reasonable to evaluate overall dynamics and parameter interaction describing social and economic system and educational sub-system as one of its elements. Nowadays we witness the imbalance between general unified methods and ways of influencing the system of higher professional education and peculiar features of missions and objectives of individual educational institutions. The reasons behind writing the article are related to the need in implementing more differentiated approaches to regulating activities of different types of educational institutions with the aim of upgrading efficacy and stability of educational system. Authors used the method of higher education activities monitoring results analysis, reference data on main parameters of the Russian Federation higher professional education system and normative documents of the recent years regulating its functioning. Conducted research demonstrates that the scope of the Russian higher professional education system is decreasing in terms of university numbers, number of students and lecturers which is a result of both social and demographic factors and policy. At the same type the combination of available educational programs is still quite extensive which requires skilled diversity management. Research results can be altered depending on the variations in the structure of changes in population employment structure and demographic numbers; possible changes in approaches to education system management on the basis of broadening or narrowing university's autonomy. It is suggested to introduce the differentiated approach to evaluating higher educational institution activities with clear division between performance criteria of licensing, accreditation and activity monitoring. A conclusion is made about specific modern qualitative development of the Russian higher educational system in the context of quantitative decrease in most of the parameters, which is the main difference as compared to wide-spread educational system growth models.

This research article analyses outcomes of integration processes in a set of professional education institutions using an example of Primorsky area and state policy towards integrated university systems (IUS) on the basis of general legislative documents in the educational field. It also looks into the opinion of Primorsky area university top administrators concerning the current state and further perspectives of IUS. The aim of the article is to identify the ways of functioning and development of integrated higher education systems in professional education in Russia. At present there is a great diversity of higher educational institutions and those integrated university systems that have formed multilevel training structure are not positioned in the context of an overall educational system development strategy in any documents or educational institution performance criteria which does not take into account the role of an educational institution in the professional education system of the region. During the research authors used statistical methods of collecting and processing data, systematic and structural and comparative analysis, data grouping, marketing research (polls, questionnaires). Conducted research demonstrates that integration policy conducted in the country during the first decade of 21^st century has given sustainable results. As of beginning of 2015 more than 20 % of the Russian higher educational institutions and their remote branches are actually integrated university systems and regional professional education systems have undergone substantial change which can be seen on the example of Primorsky are, one of the most active participants of the process. In 2013 43 % of all students in the system of professional education in Primorsky area studied at higher educational institutions whereas in 2014 this figure dropped to 38 % which is mainly due to the decrease of school graduates because of a demographic crisis, higher accessibility of higher education and sharp decrease of professional educational programs financing coming from the federal budget. Such situation forms certain risks and challenges for the region, population and higher educational institutions of Primorsky area, therefore formulating IUS management mechanisms in the new context requires further research and analysis. The importance and relevance of the article is related to the fact that it is the first to draw attention to accumulated potential of IUS as a resource for solving the tasks related to the development of national professional education system at the modern stage within the framework of the Federal Target Program of a Development of Education for 2016-2020 on "forming new structure of higher professional education organization", modernization of regional personnel training systems and support of educational institutions development programs modernization. IUS model does not contradict cluster model and can be a part of a cluster significantly improving their efficacy by means of minimizing the barriers of intra - cluster interaction of different levels of professional education.

The paper relates to the category "Research Article" and devoted to matters of application of information technologies and services of the corporate information environment at management of educational process in higher educational institution. The author analyzes problems connected with social aspects of information technologies and services' use in the educational process management on the example of regional university. The reasons of the research implementation was due to the increase in complaints of university managers to work of information technologies and services of the corporate information environment and professors and students refusals to use their opportunities in the educational process. The objective of the study is to reveal the main problems caused by information technologies and services' use at management of educational process in higher educational institution. The basic research method is the method of questionnaire in which professors and students took a part. The author determines that information technologies and services are more often used as image and leisure and utilitarian than for educational resources, and educational process management on the basis of information technologies and services has imitating character for a certain part of subjects of management. The keynote of recommendations of the research is to improve the quality of data which is provided by the information technologies and services of the corporate information environment. It can be done at observance of conditions: ensuring the quality of educational services offered by higher educational institution; increasing the professors' share with academic degree; raising the requirements to professors' qualification; supporting the growth of the average earnings of professors; providing the high average level of pre-training of first-year students. The main attention in most papers related to researches of the problem is paid to their technical and technological aspects. Social and socio-technological aspects of application of the corporate information environment are low-studied in spite of an opinion that usually "a human factor" is the main reason of the success. On the basis of the obtained data is suggested to develop recommendations about solution of problems connected with information technologies and services' use at educational process management in higher educational institution. This article is of interest first of all to managers, to developers of the corporate information environment, and also to researchers and professors of higher educational institutions.

The article belongs to a conceptual category and is aimed at looking into different aspects of cooperation between Russian universities and universities from PRC and Central Asian region both within the existing agreements between countries and networking regional partnerships. It is based on a comparative analysis of statistical data and analysis of national and international publications in the given field, experience of authors and general view of regional higher educational institution internalization on the basis of regional partnership and cross - border cooperation. The article covers relevant discussion points concerning efficacy of Shanghai Organization of Cooperation University functioning, broadening bilateral mobility and development of master double diploma programs. The writing of this article was predetermined by the need to determine the place and role of Russian regional institutions in the international educational space considering geopolitical interests of Russia, economic position of countries participating in different educational cooperation programs, level of internationalization of the university. In order to formulate and achieve the aims stated for this article authors use systematic approach to internationalization of higher educational institution. Conclusions made by the authors can be applied to international activity of regional universities looking for new forms of cooperation and strengthening existing links with higher educational institutions from Central Asia and PRC. They are of interest for higher educational institutions from Siberia and Far East, as well as from the Ural Federal Area. The novelty of this article is in suggestion on creating "growth points" for university networking partnership - international (Russian - Chinese) campuses.