Some Aspects of the System Approach to the Processes of Functioning of Intellectual Capital of a Higher Educational Establishment

The article studies the process of knowledge digestion by college students as a component of the intellectual capital. Instrument of the study is a system approach that allows a complex study of the process of knowledge digestion in a college. The article conducts analysis and summarises results with the help of system thinking, which activates the system analysis mechanism. The system view on the process of knowledge digestion by college students has its positive sides: it opens an integral character of the process of knowledge digestion, which allows explanation of a number of issues of quality of education and formulation of new directions and problems of work; the mechanism of applied methods of study also develops. Prospects of this study is as follows: further formation of the study mechanism; identification of the fields of study and volume of work; development of new methods and formation of messages to other sciences in this direction.