Economics of education, shadow economy

This paper explores how philosophical inquiry and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) can mutually benefit from each other to produce new methodological and reflexive directions in neo-liberal policy research to examine the phenomenon of ‘What is (going on here)’. Through this we argue that augmenting linguistic analysis with philosophical perspectives develops and supports CDA scholarship more broadly by accommodating the shifting complexity of social problems of ideologically driven inequality that are inbuilt through, in our case, social policy texts. In discussing philosophical-methodological issues, the paper argues for the need to continually adapt CDA to the particular data so as to remain sensitive to and avoid hegemonic tendencies in analysis. Through adopting the principles of a working methodology, we discuss a micro-meso-macro CDA framework that draws on the analytical concepts of movement, metaphorical superfluidity, thematic condensation, and surrealism to conceive of a research approach capable of examining and comprehending evolving discourses of political economies. The most immediate benefit of this framework is its capacity to illustrate how forms of valuations perpetuated by and through policy discourse are the motivational locus of meaning making insofar as they strongly inform the moral underpinning the ideology of economic growth.

In modern conditions higher education is an essential institution of society, that determines the dynamics of many social and economic indicators. The activities of higher education system subjects mainly depends on the impact of global trends in this area.
Low efficiency of functioning of a modern system of higher education in Ukraine causes the necessity of its components reforming. This causes the relevance of the research.
The aim of this article is to ground scientific approaches to the formation of organizational and economic mechanism of higher education system regulation in Ukraine.
Since independence, Ukrainian higher education system is in the process of permanent reformation. It is caused by changes in political, economic and social spheres of public life. Problematic aspects of higher education system functioning related to the low efficiency of state regulation, the current funding mechanism, and lack of development strategy in this sphere. The authors grounds the necessity to use new approaches of state regulation of higher education system based on the search of the best sources for its funding in accordance with national priorities, and increase of the quality of educational services.
As a result, they must create the conditions for the formation of human capital of information society.