The institutional environment, the economy and demography as factors of development of higher education

The subject of the article is the comparison of institutional reforms, costs and results of functioning of the Russian higher education. The purpose of the work is to determine the balance of positive and negative results of reforms and to assess the prospects and directions of their implementation in the medium term. The main methods of work - analysis of the content of regulations. economic and statistical analysis, forecast of Economics and employment in the field of education, presentation of the author's own expert assessments and collective expert assessments.