Education Quality: Paradoxes, Mistakes, Concepts

Elena Basovskaya; Leonid Basovskiy

doi:10.12737/7811

EDUCATION QUALITY: PARADOXES, MISTAKES, CONCEPTS Education Quality: Paradoxes, Mistakes, Concepts

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Published in Scientific Research and Development. Economics · Pages 36–47 · Rubric: Сommon questions

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12737/7811

Received: 16.02.2015 Accepted: 16.02.2015 Published: 16.02.2015 Language of publication: RUS

Authors

Elena Basovskaya

Leonid Basovskiy

Elena Basovskaya

Academic degree: candidate of economic sciences

Leo Tolstoy Tula State Pedagogical University Associate Professor · Department of Economics and Management

Leonid Basovskiy

Academic degree: doctor of technical sciences

Science rang: professor

Leo Tolstoy Tula State Pedagogical University Head · Department of Economics and Management

ABSTRACT

Education is the individual private benefit possessing positive outer effects. Definition of education as public benefit is paradox. A consumer of education as benefit is the household which member gets the education. Statements that employers are the consumers of this benefit are wrong. These paradoxes and mistakes generate inadequacy of the policy in education area. Quality — this is a value of education for the specific consumer, education’s social value is measured by its price in the competitive market. Current situation when the category «education quality» has no standard definition is paradoxical. Education allocates the consumer with the human capital which is value for him. This human capital provides an additional income in the form of raised salary. Salary increase can serve as a simple assessment of education quality. Such education quality assessment is used by business schools of leading universities. A set of statements about influence of these or those factors on education quality is paradox. All these statements are only unconfirmed hypotheses, many of them, most likely, are wrong. Education quality management is based on unconfirmed, often wrong hypotheses. Competitive quality management of services defines that in education it is necessary to refuse from principles of command and control management style, and to move over to the principle based on a concept that the center has to coordinate the relations, and to control as little as possible, but as much as possible create a context which will promote activity coordination. It is necessary to focus systems on the consumer and pedagogical personnel, achieving its satisfaction.

KEYWORDS

private benefit, value, human capital, inadequacy of policy.

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Что такое образование?

Экономика, как известно, представляет собой науку о том, как человек и общество управляют имеющимися в их распоряжении ограниченными ресурсами, стремясь наилучшим образом удовлетворить свои потребности [9–11]. Все, что удовлетворяет потребности человека, экономисты называют благами [9, 11]. В зависимости от материальности и длительности пользования все блага подразделяются на несколько групп. Важнейшую группу благ в современной экономике составляют услуги. Услуга — это любая выгода, имеющая неосязаемую природу и не приводящая к владению чем-либо, это деятельность, которую одна сторона может предложить другой [11, 14]. В секторе услуг в настоящее время производится большая часть валового внутреннего продукта большинства стран современного мира. Услуги включают множество отраслей и видов деятельности, в том числе — образование [7].

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Basovskaya E. N., Basovskiy L. E. Education Quality: Paradoxes, Mistakes, Concepts // Scientific Research and Development. Economics. 2015. no. 1. pp. 36-47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12737/7811. (Date of access 16.09.2026).

MLA

Elena Basovskaya, Basovskiy L. E.. "Education Quality: Paradoxes, Mistakes, Concepts." Scientific Research and Development. Economics 3.1 (2015): 36-47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12737/7811.

APA

Basovskaya E. N., Basovskiy L. E. (2015). Education Quality: Paradoxes, Mistakes, Concepts. Scientific Research and Development. Economics, 3(1), 36-47. https://doi.org/10.12737/7811

Chicago

Elena Basovskaya, Basovskiy L. E.. "Education Quality: Paradoxes, Mistakes, Concepts." Scientific Research and Development. Economics 3, no. 1 (2015): 36-47. https://doi.org/10.12737/7811.

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