Characteristics of the higher educational services as the social and economic categories

Abstract

Transformation of the Russian economy to an innovative way of development in order to increase its effectiveness involves qualitative and structural changes of the including in education. Effective market of educational services is a prerequisite for the implementation of the government strategy focused on achieving a high level of production and the country's competitiveness in the world market. To the study of the problems of the education market it is necessary to determine the main concepts and their specificity. Concepts such as "educational services" and "education market" have become part of the theory of economic science. However, it should be emphasized that in the scientific literature and publications there is no definite response, how to understand their essence.