Staffing problems of the Russian higher education system

The article presents an analysis of the current staffing problems of the national higher education. Based on statistical data and the results of scientific research, the following problems are described: insufficient wages, low prestige of scientific and pedagogical work, personnel shortage, excessive workload of teachers, quality of the qualification structure of the teaching staff, violation of the continuity of scientific and pedagogical schools and a decrease in the quality of research and teaching activities. As a result of revealing the causal links between them, a tree of personnel problems of the Russian higher education system has been developed.