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The article considers ЕРУ problems of improving the Russian system of higher professional education (HPE) in the post-Soviet period. The essential characteristics of the process of its reforming are the transitional character and permanency. The author lists different points of view of representatives of the expert community and the social agent of transformations which are aimed at systemic changes of HPE. The search for optimal ways of the educational system modernization is being performed, within the framework of the conception presented in the new law on education, by educational bureaucrats, university administrations, teachers and students themselves. The author analyzes the role, significance and influence of various agents of the contemporary HPE transformation on the basis of many sources and sociological survey data. Particular attention is given to the problem of protectionism in higher schools, subjectivity of criteria for evaluating efficiency of universities and difficulties in implementing Bologna principles.