Information Support of the Russian Education System
The article presents some results of the following studies conducted in 2015-2016 at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration: Evaluation and Comparison of the Regional Education Systems, Improving the Methodology of Sliding Forecasting of the Economy and Finances of the Education System, Evaluation and Forecast of the Development of Regional Education Systems. The availability of reliable and actual data on the current state and the development of the education system is a factor of increasing the validity of public policy measures in this area. At the same time, the analysis of the information support of the education system helped to reveal a number of problems related to both presentation quality and access to information on the activities of educational organizations and regional education systems. Insufficiently structured content, discrepancies in data provided by different information systems and restricted access reduce the effect of managerial decisions. The article formulates approaches to improving the information support of the education system, which allow enhancing the work of relevant authorities, managers and specialists.