Effective contract in higher education of the Russian Federation: theoretical approaches and features of institutional design
Institutional reforms of higher professional education, as well as of the entire social sphere, became the priorities of the new political cycle. During 2012, a number of regulations which define the direction and mechanisms of these institutional changes, were adopted, including the transition to the principles of effective contract. The paper presents the results of the institutional analysis of regulations for the transition to efficient contract in the field of higher professional education. The characteristic of the academic contract and its implementation model is given and two concepts of effective contract in universities offered by liberal expert community and ruling bureaucracy are considered. The authors conducted a comparative analysis of these two projects, showed reasons for the failure of the institutional project offered by liberal expert community and the consequences of the Russian government project implementation to the Russian higher education.