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for improvement strategy development
Kharlamova J. O. , Schegoleva S.A.
, Shkarina T.Yu.
Constant development of economy and international space means high market demand for highly qualified personnel, which in turn is under influence of quantity and quality of academic staff. The Federal Law dd. December 29, 2012 No. 273-FZ “On education in the Russian Federation” and Concept of “Comprehensive program of professional development for teaching staff of general education organizations” put emphasis on priority of development and implementation of postgraduate training programs. Change of conception of academic staff training is necessary for providing sound and competitive educational level and staff replacement in modern sciences society and professional sphere. The important tool of postgraduate training program improvement is development of growth strategy using SWOT-analysis. Thus, this paper identified and structured factors and measures that influence on enhancement of the efficiency of the studied postgraduate training program. It is worth noting that the authors conducted reasonable assessment using their own resources and situations occurs based on comparative study of the leading universities such as Higher School of Economics National Research University, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, resulting in development of key criteria. SWOT-analysis also was used in this research in combination with such methods as multi-factor analysis and questionnaires. The results of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis of educational process using matrix defined actions for realization of the opportunities that are aimed at improvement and changing of weaknesses, preventing potential threats and minimizing the risks. This paper suggests preferable strategic decisions that are required for improvement of academic staff training programs for enhancing the efficiency of postgraduate training programs. Directions for future research involves functional strategy of improvement of educational process and study of university educational milieu impact on strategy implementation.
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Keywords: SWOT-analysis, academic staff training, SWOT matrix, educational programs, strategic decisions.
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SWOT-analysis as an analysis tool of academic staff training
for improvement strategy development
Constant development of economy and international space means high market demand for highly qualified personnel, which in turn is under influence of quantity and quality of academic staff. The Federal Law dd. December 29, 2012 No. 273-FZ “On education in the Russian Federation” and Concept of “Comprehensive program of professional development for teaching staff of general education organizations” put emphasis on priority of development and implementation of postgraduate training programs. Change of conception of academic staff training is necessary for providing sound and competitive educational level and staff replacement in modern sciences society and professional sphere. The important tool of postgraduate training program improvement is development of growth strategy using SWOT-analysis. Thus, this paper identified and structured factors and measures that influence on enhancement of the efficiency of the studied postgraduate training program. It is worth noting that the authors conducted reasonable assessment using their own resources and situations occurs based on comparative study of the leading universities such as Higher School of Economics National Research University, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, resulting in development of key criteria. SWOT-analysis also was used in this research in combination with such methods as multi-factor analysis and questionnaires. The results of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis of educational process using matrix defined actions for realization of the opportunities that are aimed at improvement and changing of weaknesses, preventing potential threats and minimizing the risks. This paper suggests preferable strategic decisions that are required for improvement of academic staff training programs for enhancing the efficiency of postgraduate training programs. Directions for future research involves functional strategy of improvement of educational process and study of university educational milieu impact on strategy implementation.
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Keywords: SWOT-analysis, academic staff training, SWOT matrix, educational programs, strategic decisions.
DOI 10.17586/2310-1172-2021-14-2-116-124