The Properties and Regularities of the Educational System Development

The paper examines the ways to increase the intellectual potential of a university, which functions as an element of the national education system. The purpose of the paper is to study the properties and patterns of the functioning and development of the university as the main element of the national educational system. The methodological basis of the article is the powerful platform of the systems' theory and the system analysis. The methodology is applied to the study of an educational system at different hierarchical levels. Our major finding is the set of regularities in the functioning of the educational system. There are indicators that the management effectiveness of the educational system and higher educational institutions can be enhanced by increasing the professionalism and the qualifications of the research and teaching staff of the university. A qualitative enhancement stems from the increase of unification and standardization of organizational processes.