The Overripe Need for the Higher School Reform, or Why the Business Should Come into Universities. Part I

Abstract

The Russian higher education reform is ripe and overripe a long time. It is conducted primarily as optimization for purely economic criteria. This work contains a sketch of the actions that are able to adjust the conversion in connection with the orientation of the universities to the real labor market. This adjustment includes a number of significant steps towards the creation of a deep social partnership of government, business and academic communities.