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Professional Education in the Modern World

2012 year, number 3

AXIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF COMMERCIALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

S. S. SERGEEV
Novosibirsk
Keywords: diploma, quality, commerce, competition, mass consciousness, mission, education, valuation, service, value

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify the axiological problems caused by the processes connected with commercialization of higher education. The author describesthe risks of the social institute of higher education, caused by introduction of the quality management system and the use for the characteristic of higher educational institution of exclusively economic categories, and also the dissemination of such characteristics in the mass consciousness. The social mission of education and its independent value, and the complexity of the developed modern situation are considered.