There are considered the issues of cooperation of higher education and secondary professional education in Russia. There is substantiated the necessity of foresight management and foresight of the strategic partnership between higher schools and partner organizations, in particular secondary professional educational institutions.

There are considered the components of labour potential for various economic levels. There is found out the place of labour potential for various economic levels. There are determined the requirements for the characteristics of labour potential for different social and economic systems.

There is regarded the influence of the demographic crisis on the work of higher educational institutions. There is suggested the structure of the system of regional education, which can realize the four levels of professional education that exist in Russia. There are described the peculiarities of realization of the combined strategy of marketing with the goal to develop the system of regional education.

There are regarded the basic notions of public management, as well as the area of development of its historical forms in Russia.

There is analyzed the range of problems of university scientific schools, in particular, scientific school of economics functioning at the faculty of economics and management of Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University. There are noted the main directions of work, its achievements and perspectives of development.