DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL WITHIN A UNIVERSITY’S ECOSYSTEM

Abstract

Improvement of a human capital management system is an urgent problem of modern education. Universities are subject to increasingly high requirements for training specialists for the changing labour market, as it is the educational organisations of higher education that organise the system of professional training of future specialists. In this regard, in the new conditions of higher education development the problem of increasing efficiency of higher education functioning is actualised. In this context, the development of ecosystem approach in higher education is a necessary condition. The role of human capital development in the era of new globalisation, knowledge-based economy and progressive technological development cannot be underestimated. It is mainly due to the creative and adaptive capacity of human capital in bringing about multi-dimensional change and development for the individual, the organisation and the country as a whole. With the rapid development of the economy and society and the constant optimisation of industrial structure, the demand for highly skilled human resources is increasing. Education plays an indispensable role in the economic growth of Russia. Hence, it is very important to study mechanism and principles of human capital development through the educational ecosystem. In recent years, the contradiction between the coordinated development of vocational education in Russia and economic growth has also become apparent, such as the increase of population, the aging of population and the imbalance of population structure. How to enhance human capital development and deepen the transformation of supply-side higher education and improve its quality in universities is of great significance to economic development.