TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES AND RESTRUCTURING OF THE RUSSIAN SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
The key trend in the development of higher education in the modern information economy is the intellectualization of economic activity, including innovation. At the present stage, the university has to turn into a research university, generate and promote innovations to the market. The main aspect in this area is the enhancement of the intellectual and information component of educational and research processes, the commercialization of newly created innovations. In modern conditions, from the standpoint of market theory, the university in the system of market relations forms and realizes its own development strategy under the influence of objective economic laws (demand and supply, pricing, competition, etc.), regularities, regulations and market needs. The article presents the directions of transformation processes and restructuring of the Russian education system. Crisis phenomena and problems in the domestic system of higher education are revealed. The article systematizes the main directions of restructuring of domestic universities, on the basis of factors determined by the author with the help of indicators of long-term forecasts and programs of social and economic development of the state, in general, and the system of higher education in particular.