STATISTICAL PORTRAIT OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CHANGES NEEDED
The paper covers the system of statistical monitoring in the educational sector of Russia. The data base of the state and functioning of the educational sector is formed by virtue of two main sources – government statistical reporting and department statistics. The article defines and discusses the current issues in the statistical service organization: the system of indicators of accounting doesn’t always respond to changes in observed object adequately; doesn’t fully reflect current issues of the observed aggregate, essential for adequate and timely managerial decisions; maintenance, summary, processing of accounting results are not always arranged using up-to-date software and hardware.