Development Of The Education Market: Global And Regional Trends

In the article modern trends of higher education have been analyzed. These trends are: in the leading countries expected duration of education at all levels approaching 20 years, rapidly increasing number of the student population and the population with higher education. For 14 years from 2000 to 2014, the student population worldwide has more than doubled - by 208.5% and reached almost 208 million. The growth in the number of students is observed in all countries, but most in the countries of Asia (284%), South America (222.5%) and Africa (213.7%). The lowest dynamics is observed in the countries of developed educational industries - in Europe by 120.5% and North America by 151.5%. Accordingly, the share of different regions in the global market of educational services varies. If in 2000 European countries occupied more than a quarter of it (25.6%) and North American 17.7%, then in 2014 these two regions together represent 27.7% of the contingent of students in the world. Challenges of the modern development of education are: the need to increase the scale of education, promote life long learning principles, change qualitative characteristics of human resources and increase the value of intellectual function in the labor process. The increase in demand for higher education is reflected not only by the increase of the number students, but also by the increase of the level of education of the population in general. In average in OECD countries, less than one-third of the population (29%) have only primary and lower secondary education, 40% - secondary, and 31% - higher education. The growth of demand for higher education is reflected by such indicators as the increase in student population and the proportion of the population with higher education. The rapid growth in the number of students in the world is accompanied by another important trend - an increase in its international segment. The process of internationalization of education is manifested in the growth of the number of foreign students in the world in absolute and relative terms. the first characteristic feature of the process of internationalization of education is the increasing the number of foreign students in the world in absolute and relative terms. The global education market is developing very dynamically it can be seen that for 10 years from 2000 to 2012 the number of foreign students has increased more than two times (217%). It shows an understanding of the world of the international prospects of this market activity. The structure and development trends of the global education market have been disclosed (the increase of international students by countries and in general, the market share of countries). This trend means that at the same time rapidly growing part of other countries in the global market there are new actors, who insisted on the claim itself, choosing an active strategy of export of educational services. Among these countries - South Africa, China, India, Mexico, Malaysia, RF, and other. At the same time, in different regions the growth in the number of foreign students has different meanings: the greatest growth is demonstrated by the countries of Latin America, Asia, Oceania and Europe. The smallest growth is in North America and Africa.