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This article examines the influence of megatrends and generated by them major global tendencies of social development upon the system of education in Russia. The subject of this research is the response of education system of the Russian Federation with all its peculiarities, merits, and flaws to the effect of global megatrends of social development. The authors provide the definitions of the notion of “megatrends”, examine the key tendencies generated by such megatrends, as well as figuratively divide all tendencies onto natural and artificial. The main conclusion of this work consists in highlighting of the crucial megatrends of global social development with further determination of the tendencies resulting from these megatrends. Each megatrend is capable of originating at least one or several tendencies, which in turn, can be conditionally divided onto the tendencies of artificial or natural character. Authors’ special contribution into the research lies in elucidating the response of education system upon the produced by megatrends tendencies.
 

Abstract: In this article the authors analyze the nature of socio-economic systems (SES) including business entities and peculiarities of interaction between their structural elements. The authors analyze the concept of 'information knowledge environment' and its role in the development of socio-economic systems. They  emphasize the importance of the information knowledge environment in the development of socio-economic systems. The authors also analyze the term 'managing changes' and peculiarities of this process under the conditions of the development of socio-economic systems. The authors offer their own mode for managing changes in the socio-economic systems and define positive and negative sides of the evolutionary and revolutionary approaches to managing changes in the SESs. The authors describe peculiarities of managing changes in the SESs. In the course of their research the authors use the method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete which implies a conventional dismembering of a research object and description of its features using numerous terms and characteristics. The main contribution made by the authors to the topic is, first of all, the fact that they have developed their own model for managing changes in business entities as socio-economic systems. The authors define positive and negative aspects of the evolutionary and revolutionary approaches to managing changes in the socio-economic systems and describe peculiarities of managing changes in the socio-economic systems.