The Higher Education System of Ukraine in the European Educational Space: Place and Development Prospects (original) (raw)

The article is concerned with defining the international position of the higher education system (HES) of Ukraine in the European educational environment. It is proved that the current stage of development of the world higher education system is characterized by significant transformations that change the paradigm of the functioning of the traditional university to the paradigm of the formation of an innovative-active higher education institution (HEI) of the entrepreneurial type. The article is aimed at developing a methodical approach to determining the attractiveness of the national system of higher education in the European educational space, taking into account modern trends of transformation of universities into entrepreneurial business entities. The approach, which on the basis of search experiments allows to cluster Ukraine and 27 European countries and determine not only the overall level of attractiveness for the period 2013–2017, but also (due to spatial clustering for 20...