THE ISSUES OF MONITORING THE EFFICIENCY OF MODERN RUSSIAN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
The article deals with the analysis of organizational legal and content aspects of monitoring the efficiency of Russian higher schools that has been carried out since 2012. The author highlights the legitimacy of the Ministry of Education decisions taken on the results of the monitoring. Special attention is paid to the decision to find Russian State Trade and Economics University, one of the most promising higher schools, inefficient and to dismiss its rector. The most vulnerable indicators of monitoring such aspects as educational activity, international and financial activity, infrastructure, etc. are revealed and analyzed. Invalidity of using the monitoring results so that to reorganize higher schools is justified.