CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT MECHANISM OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS QUALITY

The modern education system is under difficult conditions at the moment, which is caused by both transformational processes and influence of numerous factors (demographic, economic, social, etc.). Under the market conditions one of the topical issues for the education authorities is a formation of organizational mechanism aimed at ensuring effective functioning of the system and its quality. The paper aims to highlight theoretical aspects and provide practical recommendations for improving the organizational management mechanism of the development of the national education system of Ukraine. As a result of a theoretical research the necessity for the formation of a mechanism for managing the quality of education in the context of implementation of the major innovative methods of organizing the educational process has been identified. The components of the integral indicator of the evaluation of the development of the education system have been determined, the results of calculation of which are the basis for making strategic decisions in the direction of development of the national education system. It has been found that among the proposed groups of indicators of the development of the system of education, the most important is the integral indicator of the efficiency of functioning of the general education system, which indicated its critical state. The peculiarities of the system of education under the current market conditions have been grounded, which has allowed to systematize its main factors of development and delineate basic components of the mechanism. A conceptual scheme of the organizational management mechanism of the development of the education system has been proposed, the main task of which is to enroll the population in accessible and high-quality education. The organizational mechanism of management of the development of the national education system is represented as a set of blocks, which include the main elements of the management system and the necessary links between these elements. There have been also outlined the prospects for improving the mechanism of management of the development of the education system by means of activating such instruments as: clusterization, endowment funds, autonomy of educational institutions, management standards, etc