Article gives the contents of lifelong learning system concepts and reveals foreign experience in continuous
educational systems creation and development. The place of lifelong learning system in Russian educational
system upgrade process is determined and conditions are determined, under which this process can exist.
A large part is devoted to education management system and process of continuous education management
modelling characteristics using IDEF0 methodology. Article includes main characteristics of continuous
education, that can be determined in numbers. Specific objectives to be solved by continuous education
management system are revealed.

The full-scale modernization of higher education requires the adequate adjustment of governing this
sphere on the part of the state to ensure the success of reforms. The article shows the system of objects of
governance in higher education under new organizational and economic conditions, studies changes in managing
this system necessary to secure its proper functioning (these changes are shown from the point of view of each
major reform). The article also puts forward suggestions for perfecting state governance and control in higher
education required to create auspicious conditions for its further development.

The article presents the experience of North State Medical University (Archangelsk) in organization of
the system monitoring of educational environment. The system monitoring of educational environment is
aimed at making managerial decisions and promoting a higher institution development. The author advanced
pedagogical and managerial reserves of monitoring of evaluation of the quality of teaching staff and students.
This monitoring takes an important place in the structure of the system monitoring of educational environment.

The paper describes the experience of creating a quality management system (QMS) at the Ural State
Academy of Architecture and Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia. The Academys quality concept is presented in brief,
and the main stages in the establishment of the QMS and its scope are outlined. The authors present a QMS
model, structure of the documentation, levels of management and the QMS organizational structure. The
paper briefly describes the audits and self-evaluations that have been carried out, which should enable the
reader to judge about the extent to which the QMS meets the Standard Model, GOST R ISO 9001-2001 and
about its level of maturity.

Modern concept of result-oriented education requires that purposes of education have to be represented
as the projection of qualifications, specified by the labor market. This approach makes the creation of complex
system for controlling education results, expressed in terms of professional competencies, the most relevant
and challenging problem. The present article covers the details of theoretical questions of this system organization
and its practical implementation at Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service.

On the basis of primary information over university and R&D systems of MEDA countries collected on
websites of MEDIBTIKAR project and Spanish cybermetric laboratory, comprehensive and comparative
analysis of these systems was done. Universities and R&D centers included accordingly in TOP - 5000 and
Top-1000 of best Universities and R&D centers of the world on webometric ranking were identified. Distribution
of R&D centers of MEDA countries according fields of sciences was received. This research presents the
interest for postsoviet Universities and R&D organizations, which are finding partners in MEDA regions for
participation in FP7 projects.

The article focuses on the problem of attracting private funds in Russian universities and colleges. The
article contains analysis of investment vehicles and factors determining abilities of fundraising for universities
and colleges. The ways of promoting investments in Russian education system are also considered.

This article is about the questions of evaluation of risk and profitability at investment in the financial
market. The classical approaches to the risk assessment of the most popular financial instruments: stocks and
bonds were considered in this work. The rates describing the volatility of the financial instrument were used
in order to quantify the risk of the instrument. In a short time horizon the volatility of stock is considerably
higher than the volatility of bond and it makes the stock more risky finanacial instrument than bond. When
the time horizon increases the volatility of stock considerably goes down. The analysis of American and
Russian markets shows, that the stock is more preferable object of an investment when the time horizon
increases.

The author has been describing the way of forming the list of the controlled figures of the staffs activity.
The list of the controlled figures is directed towards supporting the teaching process of the university. The
activity of the department is considered to solve many tasks. The level of priority, the degree of conformity
to the purposes of the main processes, the frequency of appearance are evaluated for every task. Therefore the
evaluations make it possible to divide the tasks into separated sets: compulsory recommended and not
recommended ones for controlling. Also these evaluations are used for forming the vector space of indexes,
which can be as a basis for the way of determination the weight indexes of the figures.

A multi-level distributed information system for the management of student cohort in the State University
of Nizhni Novgorod is described. The systems principal features include:
integration of data from different units in a single database, offering prompt support for decision-making
to the Universitys administration, access to the software system for users from various categories of University
units and different management levels. Main principles of system design are discussed. The general concept
and the structure of the system are described, along with the peculiarities of its technical implementation and
database architecture.

The summary original causes of a present condition of the higher education, not satisfying consumers are
revealed. Proceeding from purpose(assignment) of high schools, priorities, the basic purposes and problems(tasks),
principles, organizational structures, subsystems of quality management and by business, the are formulated.