THE STUDY OF MECHANISMS OF INTERACTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES MARKET AND THE LABOR MARKET

The paper considers the issue of interaction of labor market and the market of educational services, which is particularly topical due to the educational system modernization processes caused by the strengthening of the strategic importance of knowledge in the information economy. The deterioration in quality and competitiveness of education in the global market, the low level of resourcing, the lack of highly qualified personnel, and the un-coordinated actions of labor market and educational services market are caused by the initial stage of formation of market relations in educational sector. The issue of concurrence of interaction of labor market and the educational services market is the complex social and economic task that requires system approach consisting in joint consideration of the system components: the offers of the educational services market, the demand in labor market. In the paper, the authors determined and analyzed the key concepts of the matter under the study: education, educational services, educational services market, and labor market. The authors considered the special aspects of the system and the integrated approaches of coordination of mechanisms of labor market and educational services market interaction taking into account the specific character of their development on the example of educational system of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. During the research, the main measures for the integration are formulated: building partnership between the higher education system, the production and the business; the formation of training level of specialists according to the dynamically developing demand in labor market; updating of the educational material resources of the educational institutions according to the modern production technologies. All that allowed establishing special role of state regulation in the issue of optimization of interaction of labor market and the market of educational services. It will allow coordinating the objectives and the content of training specialists taking into account the economy strategic development, forming government order for training personnel taking into account the long-range requirements of economy, and developing long-term forecasts.