Abstract:
The conditions of the functioning of state higher education institutions at the present
stage of development of the Ukrainian economy require new approaches to solve the problem of
the relationship between the volume of training of specialists with higher education and their
employment in the sphere of economic activity. The purpose of this article was to provide
theoretical substantiation and practical recommendations for the development of a higher
education institution development strategy for making managerial innovative decisions on
balancing the demand and supply of educational services in a competitive environment. The
following methods were used in the study: abstract logical; comparative economic and system
structural; statistical; sociological; modeling; the algorithm of practical application of the theory of
constraints of systems; and the apparatus of the theory of fuzzy sets. Methodological approaches
to the implementation of the optimal allocation of budget places of the university by means of a
practical application of system restriction theory and fuzzy set theory were proposed. The result
was the allocation of budgetary places, taking into account the demand for specialties in terms of
the economic situation of the region, the demand in the labor market, the demand among entrants,
and the proposal of the institution of higher education and the Ministry of Education and Science
of Ukraine. It will make it possible to reach the optimum balance between demand for specialists
in specific specialties and their supply. The practical value of the research results lies in the
development and use of methodological provisions for forecasting the demand and supply of
educational services of higher education institutions, which are means of prospective reflection,
predicting the ways of further development of the higher education system and modeling of
various options for its functioning.
