ESSENCE, CONTENT AND MAIN COMPONENTS OF ECONOMIC SECURITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Today in Ukraine there are complex transformation processes related to the European integration of our state, which directly or indirectly affect all aspects of socio-political and economic life of our state, including the education system. Higher education is the foundation and guarantee of state development. Higher education institutions, which in modern conditions are the leaders of innovation and knowledge centers, are influenced by a number of factors that contribute, in turn, to the creation and formation of threats to their effective functioning, and thus their security, and therefore higher education in general and economic security of the system of higher education institutions in particular. It is in this area that the most active reform processes are aimed at implementing European standards in the activities of domestic higher education institutions, the main purpose of which is to create objective preconditions for the integration of domestic educational institutions into the European educational space. To implement these tasks requires radical changes in the activities of higher education institutions of scientific and pedagogical level of teaching staff, modernization of educational facilities, harmonization of training with the real needs of the economy, creating favorable conditions for learning and living students, their employment and more. Given the growing competition between higher education institutions, not only domestic but also foreign, the growing demands of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine to meet domestic requirements, demographic and economic factors, more and more universities, including private ownership find themselves in difficult conditions that negatively affect their economic security and activities in general. In these conditions, in order to ensure stable operation and development, higher education institutions must have modern security systems that are able to effectively and comprehensively counter not only existing threats, but prevent the impact of threats in the future. The aim of the article is to study the nature, content and main components of economic security of higher education institutions. The article structured the economic security of the enterprise. The main elements of the internal and external environment of higher education institutions that affect its economic security are described.