ANALYSIS OF THE WORLD EXPERIENCE OF FORMING UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY
Changing the methods and mechanisms of interaction between the subjects of the market of educational services and the state is the focus of modernization of higher education systems of all countries in the 21st century. Under the conditions of building an innovative society, an important prerequisite for the performance of higher education institutions' functions is university autonomy. The theoretical and methodological and analytical support for the formation of the constituent parts of the university autonomy in the countries of the world has been generalized with a view to identifying trends in the formation of the optimal correlation of state and market mechanisms in the higher education system. The methodological and informational basis of the research was made by monographs of scientists, which highlight the problems of the formation of university autonomy, the materials of periodicals and the resources of the Internet on these issues. During the research, the methods of comparative analysis, system and logical analysis, the method of generalizing information were used. As a result of the research, a comparative analysis of the history of the development of the idea of university autonomy was conducted, the specifics of the organization of universities from the point of view of autonomy were examined and the principles and attributes of the autonomy of universities in the countries of the world were characterized. As an analytical support, the studies examined - for each component of institutional autonomy: academic, financial, organizational and personnel - the indicators and their weight which assess the overall level of university autonomy. As a result of the analysis a conclusion was drawn that the idea of creating a university autonomy is based on the optimal correlation between the autonomy of universities and their state regulation and provides for a different degree of autonomy in various fields of the university activity: academic, financial, organizational and personnel. The practical application of the results of the study consists in using the selected indicators for each component of institutional autonomy to determine the overall level of university autonomy and management.