High education is the most important social institute, operating to cater for public necessities and due to this fact it reacts to all changes and process in public life. The tendency for intercultural integration and the humanity development somehow influences the system of high education. They require profoundly educated specialists graduated from state universities. This leads to the situation when all countries intend so called “international standards”, worked out by science and technology.

Globalization and education

Modern technologies and developed infrastructure make information accessible in every corner of the world, provide universal education in the leading educational centers.
Globalization, though with some variations, demands from national systems of education new targeted orientation which will take in account the necessity of international solidarity general ethics.

Formation of new socio-cultural values, supported by the majority of the countries in the world union, such as free civilized market and public relations humanization tend to change both the structure of high education, expanding economists’, manegers’, layers’, sociologists’ trainings, and its paradigm itself.

The greatest tendency is the expansion of high education which is connected to science development.

High education penetrates into masses. In different countries the rate of the previous pupils who entered universities makes 60% and in North America – 84%. For example in 1960 the number of students in the world was 13 million and by 1997 it has grown sevenfold to 88,2million.
DiversificationIt’s the other modern education tendency which means prices division for institutional forms, levels and contents. Though there are lots of high education establishments to trial classic universities the role of the latest didn’t decrease more over they lay claim to be the centers of socio-cultural environment in the region.

Internationalization

This seems to be the third important tendency of modern education which stands for universal character of information and knowledge, for forces mobilization of the world scientific union. Educational systems of different countries come closer trying to work out general purposes and tasks, to solve mutual problems. Communicative systems such as the Internet for example are the main instrument for this unification.

International cooperation

Cooperation gives the forceful push to international education development. It is responded to cope with several current tasks:
• To control the adequacy and the contents of high education according to the needs of economy, politics, socio-cultural field.
• To level educational systems of different countries.
• To fortify partnership and unity in the sphere of high education.
• To make it possible to use general and common knowledge and skills in different countries.
• To maintain the expansion of high education in developing countries by means of financing.

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