1. Introduction

Many scientists and politicians paid attention to the 
sphere of education today. Only countries which 
have a highly and corresponding to modern require-
ments of the education system, can to become one 
of developed nations of the modern world. Almost 
all countries show strong economic growth, a prior-
ity is the development of education.

In order to correctly perceive, analyze and evalu-
ate information, a person must have sufficient intel-
ligence and the necessary range of knowledge. The 
basis for this laid exactly at the level of secondary 
education, which makes increasingly high demands 
on the higher educational establishments.

Research organizational and economic mecha-
nism in the common secondary education takes on 
special actuality today, when the discussion about 
reform (or modernization) in education system is 
not finished. It’s carried among executives (not just 
the education system) and in academic circles. How-
ever, many liberal reformers proposals require care-
ful critical analysis.

2. Paper main body

The main differences affecting such areas as re-
forming the economic mechanism of secondary 

Journal of Geography, Politics and Society

2017, 7(1), 56–59
DOI 10.4467/24512249JG.17.007.6206

STATE MECHANISMS OF ENSURING QUALITATIVE MODERNIZATION 
OF SECONDARY EDUCATION

Nadiya Karpeko

Educational, Scientific and Production Center, National University of Civil Protection of Ukraine, Lermontovska 28, 61024 Kharkiv, Ukraine,
e-mail: nadezhda_v@list.ru

Citation
Karpenko  N., 2017, State mechanisms of ensuring qualitative modernization of secondary education, Journal of Geography, 
Politics and Society, 7(1), 56–59.

Abstract
The article analyzes theoretical position of one of the problems of educational reform that allowed identify the ways to im-
prove the branch system of economic relations in education and to define concrete steps on implementation assigned in 
connection with this task. Reforming education in Ukraine is part of the renewal of education systems associated with the rec-
ognition of the importance of knowledge as an engine of social welfare and progress. It is therefore particularly urgent study of 
all components of the system of secondary education: planning, assessment, prediction - at both national and regional levels.

Key words
economic mechanism, state regulation, reforming of education in Ukraine.



State mechanisms of ensuring qualitative modernization of secondary education 57

education as a change in the status of educational 
institutions, the transition to the required funding 
and competitive procedure for placing the state 
order for specialists training. After acceptance into 
1991 of the Law of Ukraine „On Education” (current 
version – of February 19, 2016) (Закон України…, 
2016) was an important milestone in the develop-
ment of new sectoral economic mechanism. The 
Law removed many inconsistencies in the model of 
the economic system that offered previously, elabo-
rated and brought it closer to the existing realities 
of a number of key points, gave legal force to new 
economic solution.

However, experience shows that it is fixed eco-
nomic model to date has largely obsolete. Today it’s 
clear, that it is not an adequate system of modern 
economic relations in the area, and by that deforms 
it (Садковой, 2013).

Building concept of the new system of economic 
relations in education today involves several funda-
mental decisions and far from trivial issues. 

The first step is to determine which balance the 
interests of participants of the educational process 
will show this system.

It is known, for example, industrial model, which 
operated under the planned economy distribution 
primarily takes into account the interests of the 
management structures of higher levels of verti-
cal. In this case obviously it was assumed that top 
managerial authority not only understand, but also 
better than other express Interest all participants in 
the educational process. As a result, educational in-
stitutions essentially boiled down to the application 
level to the management system and completely 
lost their economic rights (Смолин, 2002).

Improving economic system of education, in our 
view, must use strategy of gradual modernization 
modern model of distribution of financial resources 
in the area and consistently grow there elements 
that provide educational services free choice of its 
customers.

Now the movement in this direction in the first 
place can be achieved by expanding the volume of 
paid educational services and is in ever-increasing 
extent be marked in the allocation of financial re-
sources in the industry. In the same direction can 
be conducted and experimental work on local (with 
some areas) the introduction of special credit certifi-
cates (vouchers) to pay for major (performed as part 
of the mandatory program) educational services 
provided by institutions of general education (Си-
ницина, 2004).

As a whole, the proposed evolutionary path of 
development and distribution relationships in edu-
cation is still the most appropriate because in the 

end the difficult socio-economic situation is not 
advisable to radically change the existing order of 
things and introduce innovations that are not tested 
during serious experimental work.

Anyway, in the short term seems best to build 
a new system of economic relations in educa-
tion using the principle of individual expres-
sion of interest, mainly due to the so-called so-
cial order formed by the state, by the scheme: 
personal through the public, not vice versa  
(Байкова, 2007).

Modernizing the state economic mechanism in 
education must play better in the updated model 
of the specific educational institutions such as non-
profit organizations which profit is not the purpose 
of their operation. Unlike business corporations (en-
terprises, cooperatives etc.), educational institutions 
for their economic activity is not the main. It’s just 
providing a process, so it should be considered (Му-
хін, 2008).

As a result of economic activity, for example, im-
possible to judge effectiveness of the educational 
institutions, including and economic efficiency. In 
education do not work and it is effective in other 
areas of economic mechanisms stimulating the 
growth of quality of manufactured products or ser-
vices. Thus, under the effective influence of several 
objective reasons, educational institutions cannot 
significantly expand the volume of produced ser-
vices, and this can interrupt natural for most sectors 
of the economy chain, improving product quality 
– increased demand for it - the increase in output 
growth – revenue producer. It means, we must find 
other incentives and other mechanisms improve the 
quality of manufactured products – education ser-
vices. The study of the question shows that these 
mechanisms are in administrative regulation of the 
industry and within these reasons, in principle, inap-
propriate to model economic relations in education 
based on the canons adopted in a commercial envi-
ronment (Смолин, 2002).

Moreover, in the world is considered normal 
when the current regulations, in a sense, hinder edu-
cational institutions interested in maximizing prof-
its. And it is experienced by many established that 
in the pursuit of profit, these institutions will inevi-
tably have to sacrifice quality services produced by 
them, and it certainly is contrary to their functional 
purpose (Головко et al., 2009).

Improving sectoral pattern of economic relations, 
it is necessary, as we have noted, consider that educa-
tion is very different from other sectors of the economy 
manifest themselves market mechanisms of self-regu-
lation system. Not all of them are „triggered” in this very 
specific area. For example, education in this area is very 



58  Nadiya Karpeko

limited optimization capabilities of competition in the 
education market. And if in the field of vocational edu-
cation and preschool education they can still give posi-
tive results, in general education are essentially power-
less (Чикало, 2003).

It is obvious that in the countryside, competition 
between educational institutions virtually absent. 
Consumers are enjoying the services of those agen-
cies that are directly in its settlements or at most 
a short distance from it. In such a situation, even if 
a number of wealthy parents of children using the 
material possibilities of the latter, and attend better, 
from their perspective, a school in another village or 
in the nearest town, the general economic condition 
of local schools is noticeably not affect. Budget al-
locations it receives almost the same volumes and 
reducing funding certainly not go beyond the sig-
nificant annual fluctuations (Шукевич, 2015).

At the same time, such a mass character „migra-
tion” cannot receive, because firstly, not all consum-
ers of educational services so desire, and secondly, 
not all willing enough this means.

Another situation, but the same results, in the 
modern city. Here, especially in large cities, students 
and their parents really great selection of secondary 
schools. However, in practice it is much narrower 
„production” capabilities of institutions that really 
work well and whose services are in demand. Limit-
ed resources, primarily personnel, potential does not 
allow them to accept all interested and does not al-
low to expand the volume of its activities. As a result, 
much of consumers of educational services have to 
get them to „ordinary” secondary schools and this 
provides them calm existence (Чижевський, 2005).

We know that competition in the market of 
goods and services allows to optimize territorial 
distribution of production. Its beneficial effect af-
fects the development of all sectors of the economy 
and general education is only in this sense absolute 
exception. Here no competition producers or any 
other innovative market mechanisms do not have 
a direct effect on the placement of network of sec-
ondary schools (Шульгіна, Яковлев, 2004).

Thus, the study of the specific sector shows that 
market mechanisms in education system of self-reg-
ulation often do not work and so they should be du-
plicated mechanisms of administrative regulation. 
For example, competition between educational in-
stitutions does not create incentives to improve the 
quality of work, does not provide optimization of in-
dustry structure, not reduces the cost of education. 
All this shows that we should not invent new here, 
but questionable relative of economic necessity and 
effectiveness, building aimed at „inclusion” exactly 

economic mechanisms of the system (Огаренко, 
2005).

If necessary a differentiated approach to the re-
muneration of teachers and financial ensuring the 
institutions have different quality parameters activi-
ties carried out by them, is enough to determine the 
category in the first case workers, and in the second 
case, institutions, based on these identified differ-
ences in their work. Moreover, determine these dif-
ferences and identify criteria for assessing the quality 
of teaching, or more – educational activities should 
science. Economists remain here only justify differ-
ences in payments and provision. But these issues 
are not the subject of this study (Бесчастний, 2009).

Forming a new branch model of economic rela-
tions in education, need to know that educational 
institutions are not organizations that are financed 
just because they operate. Unlike management 
structures, educational institutions produce, albeit 
very specific, but nevertheless a quite definite mar-
ketable product – educational services. Therefore 
wrongly speak about financing of activity of these 
establishments because the customer pays not it, 
but obtained his services. This raises a whole com-
plex of questions related to the organization pay for 
educational services that are performed under the 
state order (Калініна et al., 2002).

The fact that the segmentation of the educa-
tional market, where prices of the individual sectors 
are installed under a the influence of various factors, 
and usually at a very unequal level differentiation 
activities of educational institutions to „favorable” 
and „unfavorable” (Садковой, 2013). And since, for 
objective reasons, most low-paid types of work are 
those that are performed within the state order, that 
is the main educational activities of public institu-
tions, eventually, through their efforts and redistri-
bution of teaching staff in favor of a commercial plan 
- additional paid educational services.

3. Conclusions

Formation of a new economic model in educa-
tion is a very complex and dynamic conditions of 
a fundamental restructuring of the entire system 
of economic relations in the country. Naturally, the 
specificity of this historical period has a high level of 
entropy in socio-economic development of society, 
and lays on it a special mark. In particular, it’s rela-
tive high degree of openness created by the system 
to account for new phenomena in the economy and 
the social sphere, its inherent ability to transform in 
an environment that changes the content model 



State mechanisms of ensuring qualitative modernization of secondary education 59

and transition elements, designed for use in extraor-
dinary circumstances of economic crisis.

With the stable economic development in educa-
tion should be excluded following types of institu-
tions to attract extra-budgetary funds as providing 
brokerage services to commercial organizations. It 
should greatly limit and lease of housings of educa-
tional institutions. It is well known that, as a rule, it is 
not caused by an excess in schools, orphanages, kin-
dergartens and sports education institutions teach-
ing space, and an acute shortage of these facilities 
for educational work.

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