The article deals with the essence of innovative management and forms of its implementation in the educational process of Ukrainian higher establishments. The implementation of an innovative management in the educational process, which aims at developing educational institutions and the prospects for the education of the region, is substantiated. The peculiarities of traditional and innovative management of educational processes are examined, basic directions of educational management

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... t in Ukraine are defined.It is determined that the introduction of innovative management in educational establishments involves the following conditions: socio-pedagogical, implemented through the principles of democratization and humanization of the educational process and management of this process. Creation of all prerequisites for the development of creative potential of teachers, students, members of the administrative apparatus in order to attract them to experimental research activities; Psychological and pedagogical ones, which are based on continuous informing of workers on scientific and pedagogical issues, entry of the institution into innovative infrastructure, institutional provision of the training process and raising the professional level of the subjects of the innovation process, formation of employees of the innovation culture; organizational and pedagogical ones, which are based on the financing of the innovative activity of the institution and the creation of a system of special incentives for the implementation of educational innovations through the establishment of scientific, legal and economic ties with scientific institutions and organizations both within the state and abroad.