Effectiveness Of Education On National Competencies In Russian Context

National Competency, as a concept, has gained increasing concerns by many countries since 1980s. As economic globalization goes so far as to arouse the fierce competitions between nations, people are aware of the implication of improving national competency to the sustainable economic growth and prosperity, leading to the increasing researches on this issue. According to the studies, education has great importance to national competency, and contributes to make the competency sustainable. This paper chooses Russia as the unit of account, and analyzes the effectiveness of educational development on Russian National Competencies in the new age, in the framework of national competency theory and the work done by Russian researchers.First, this paper summarizes the relation between educational development and national competency. The relation between them has an implication of, and varies with new times. It is analyzed on the bases of the work done by American Porter (national competition advantage theory), two influential organizations studying international competencies and other Russian professionals.The impact of educational development on national competencies in Russian context- the core of this paper- is then studied in three aspects. First, this paper will present the attributes and advantages of Russian education formed and accumulated in the long history, and the changes in education given by the current politics, economy, culture and international relations. Second, it analyzes the capacities to improve national competencies via educational system, including macro educational policies, human resource policy reform and educational quality improvement. Third, the descriptive statistics are used to reveal the relation between educational development and national competencies. Some meaningful indicators of education and economic development are applied for analysis.The final chapter of this paper summarizes the conclusion by the factor analysis. Internal and external factors contributing to the role of education on national competencies are discussed. The multiple factors include accumulated educational advantages, external environment, educational reforms and innovations.It is suggested by this paper that education plays an important role in improving Russian national competencies. Three main characteristics of the causal relation between education and national competencies can be summarized to be: latent, of cycle, and sustainable.