DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH COMPETENCIES IN QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN UNIVERSITIES

This paper solves the problem of quality management in national research universities in Russia. The goal of this paper was to study the empirical experience and to substantiate the prospects for improving quality management in national research universities in Russia. Based on statistics on 30 national research universities of the Russian Federation in 2030, an econometric model of quality management in these universities was compiled. Based on the model, the important role of research competencies in quality management in Russian universities was substantiated. The Pareto optimum was found, which demonstrated the possibility for the maximisation of quality in Russian universities through the development of research competencies. For its achievement, a map of competencies in quality management in national research universities of Russia was offered. The main conclusion is that the quality of activities in national research universities is determined by the level of the development and the level of disclosure of research competencies of scholars working in them: citations of their publications, number of concluded licensing agreements, and science-making activity of young scientists. The theoretical significance consists in the development of a new – competence-based – approach to quality management in national research universities of Russia, the originality of which lies in the transition from norming to the development of research competencies in universities. The practical significance is that the developed competence-based approach will allow improving the practice of quality management in national research universities of Russia. Thus, the paper supports the project "Decade of Science and Technologies in Russia”.