MANAGING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CYCLICAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS: THE “ECONOMIC CROSS” MODEL
The article proposes directions for adapting the educational process to the demands of the modern competitive labor market, taking into account the influences of cyclical processes in the global economy. The strengths of the current model of the organization of the educational process, the competitiveness of which will remain in the XXI century, and the new requirements for the education system associated with the formation of the 7-fold economy have been identified. Based on the results of the analysis, proposals were developed for the modernization of the educational process, taking into account the economic and social realities in Russia at the beginning of 2020. Based on the results of the analysis of trends in the development of the educational space under the influence of the demands of the transformational economy, the authors have built a model of the «economic cross» that optimizes the processes of finding optimal management decisions in terms of global processes in the educational space.