Educational process economy: main parameters and results of modeling

The author considers the peculiarities of educational activity organization under the conditions of transition of the educational system to the technology of educational services. The technical and economical efficiency of the main professional educational programs (MPEP) is gaining special importance both during design process of the main professional educational program and on its implementation stage. The author proposes a list of indexes sufficient for estimation of MPEP efficiency, the dominating factors and determination of optimal parameters, which provide economical efficiency of the educational process. The author suggests interconnection of the values the quantitative meanings of which are determined in normative documents of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, including: the correlation teacher - student, the required salary for the academic staff (AS) and amount of finance allocated for the AS salary. It is shown that the provision of the AS with salary (a share in the whole volume of salary) in the volumes determined by the decrees of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation doesn’t exceed 70 %. In this regard the importance of the personnel policy implementation in educational organizations is underlined based on efficient contract imple-mentation. It is aimed to encourage the academic staff to adopt additional types of paid work. The author also offers a calculation method for estimation of training activity volume during MPEP implementation, which considers the complexity of the discipline in the process of calculation of its volume. It was shown that there are such key factors which influence the economic efficiency of the educational process at MPEP implementa-tion (given in descending order of priority: complexity of the discipline; number of students learning MPEP; correlation between training activity types (lectures, practical classes, laboratory researches); availability of educational support in electronic-informational educational environment. As a result of modeling it was affirmed that at the present stage the optimal parameters of the educational process are: the discipline volume - not less than 5 credits; the number of students of one year learning MPEP - not less than 200; share of training in an electronic education environment - not less than 20 %, and strictly justified amount of laboratory researches.