On the basis of state statistics data, the depth of regional disparities in the accumulation and implementation of educational potential is analyzed in this paper. The authors consider the socio-economic characteristics of different types of regions and set the relationship between the level of the Russian Federation's subjects, the quality of life of people there and the value of educational resources in higher, secondary and primary vocational education. The correspondence between the trends of accumulation at the level of the educational potential of higher professional education, secondary professional education and primary vocational education and the trends in changes in the educational structure of employment in different types of regions is being analyzed. Basing on the results of the study, the reasons for growth of regional disparities and introduction of the basic guidelines for a «social» and «global» regional policy, whose principles stated in the documents of the Russian government, are revealed.

Disequilibrium between labor market and market of educational services has been under scrutiny by the expert community for quite some time, however a solution to the problem has not yet been found. Previous researches show not only the existence of said disequilibrium, but also the inefficiency of the measures that are aimed at compensating for it. In this context, the research goal becomes the search for those barriers and reasons that are upholding the disequilibrium situation, an unproductive one relative to the goals of the modernization of the national economy. In light of this problem, the authors examine the general social and economic context of interactions between the employer, and the employee prepared by the system of professional educational services, as well as employer expectations concerning the quality of the employee’s professional skills, and the requirements which they are forced to meet.