Construction of lifelong learning governance system: key aspects

Article gives the contents of lifelong learning system concepts and reveals foreign experience in continuous educational systems creation and development. The place of lifelong learning system in Russian educational system upgrade process is determined and conditions are determined, under which this process can exist. A large part is devoted to education management system and process of continuous education management modelling characteristics using IDEF0 methodology. Article includes main characteristics of continuous education, that can be determined in numbers. Specific objectives to be solved by continuous education management system are revealed.