Educational Component of the National Security of Ukraine

Abstract

The article is aimed at determining the educational component position within the national security, analysing educational factors and indicators of the security environment shaping and, on this basis, reasoning recommendations for the development of approaches towards the assessment of the educational sector in security dimensions and determining directions for the education role transformation in ensuring the national security of Ukraine in terms of a full-scale war. The positions of the educational component in the national security system were identified and its importance as a “soft” parameter of the state’s economic security was characterized, which corresponds to the Sustainable Development Goals. Based on the analysis of methodical approaches towards the assessment of the educational component of the state’s economic security, their advantages, drawbacks and limitations were determined. It was found out that the indicators of education development within the existing approaches to determining the level of security based on an integral assessment are presented fragmentarily. A comprehensive approach to determining the level of educational security was offered based on a combination of several methods and additional evaluation of individual indicators taking into account specific research goals. The dual role of education in the system of national security was grounded — as an indicator of the economic (in particular, social) security level and as its determinant, influencing other components of security. Respectively, it is stated that education can be both an object and a tool of security policy simultaneously. The significance of education as a determinant of the security environment was investigated by determining its influence on the components of security. Transformative shifts in the tasks of the national education system as a component and determinant of Ukraine's national security in terms of martial law and post-war recovery of the state were defined.