PARADIGMATIC CONCEPTS OF INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Problem setting. The article included the methodological analysis of innovation activity in higher education and
considered the types of innovation. The article examines the content and main directions of state policy of innovation
activity in higher education in Ukraine. Here is the system of principles of state innovation policy in higher education
field. The article analyzed the subject of innovation activity in higher education in Ukraine.
Article’s main body. The specificity of innovations in higher education due to the fact that they are, firstly, always
accommodate new solutions of actual problems in high school, secondly, they leads to qualitatively new results of
educational activities, and thirdly, implementation of such innovations results the qualitative changes in other components
of a unified system of higher education.
It’s important to have the relevant criteria for the successful and effective application of innovation in higher education
(subject content, scope, volume of changes caused by innovations, implementation method). It allows to classificate them
and orient all participants of the educational process in relation to theirs purposes, application fields and index of
effectiveness.

State innovation policy in higher education is the most important condition for innovatively orientated modernization
of higher educational institutions. The main purpose of such state policy is to provide high-level international standards
of scientific and pedagogical staff training. The staff should be able to generate the innovative advanced technological
changes and adapt them to the needs of society.
Achieving of this goal requires the solution of following priority tasks, containing innovative perspective:
– training, retraining and advanced training;
– academic staff training;
– innovation culture of subjects of innovative process;
– generation and implementation of innovative technologies in the educational process;
– large-scale implementation of lifelong learning paradigm in education;
– increasing the participation of higher education institutions in innovation processes.
State innovation policy in higher education based on the system of principles, among them:
– satisfaction of personal needs in learning and satisfaction of social needs in well-educated personalities prepared
to innovative activity;
– integration of science, education and production;
– optimization of state regulation mechanism of education and self-government field based on democratic principles;
– state policy of genesis of innovation processes in education;
– practical implementation of the lifelong learning paradigm in the men’s working life;
The system of priorities in innovative activity in higher education should be built on following principles:
– European level of quality and accessibility of education;
– spiritual orientation of education;
– democratization of education;
– social welfare of scientists and teachers;
– development of society on the basis of new knowledge.
Conclusions and prospects for the development. Academic staff or group of teachers engaged in innovation are
the subjects of innovative activity in universities. The problem of teachers’ training for innovative activity has become
actual recently. Because teacher is the main carrier of the quality of education, so the development of his creativity is the
key condition to ensure his readiness to work in conditions of innovative changes.