Educational Potential as a Basis for Increasing the Country’s Competitiveness

Abstract

The transformational processes taking place in the educational system of the Russian Federation should favor a positive formation of professional competencies and competitive advantages of young people. Increasing the level of education of the population hypothetically should contribute to the growth of labor productivity, reduce labor intensity and save time. The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that the main basis for the growth of labor productivity, the development of innovations, equipment and technologies, and the increase in the competitiveness of manufactured products is the strengthening of educational potential. The study is based on the use of monographic, statistical, tabular and graphical methods of analysis of the modern education system. The results allow us to conclude that the differentiation of the quality of knowledge and professional competencies is determined by the basic conditions of the socioeconomic well-being of families (income, status, social origin, system of moral values and others). The problem of provision of educational institutions in rural areas is especially acute. The reduction in the number of preschool and low motivation for labor in the education system and scientific activity can be the main destructive force of the domestic education system.