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Globalization has significantly influenced the management model of the Russian higher education institutions, and not only of those universities that participate in the TOP-100 program. As a standard of management model of higher education institution it is currently used a model accepted in a large corporations. In many ways, it is justified because this approach has proven effectiveness within the global economy. At the same time, the implementation of such an approach raises a number of contradictory tendencies. As a positive trend we consider a gradual withdrawal from the elections of Rectors. As a negative trend we consider the increasing of the control over the universities by the Ministry of Education and Science, as well as a significant diminishment of the role of the Academic council of the university and the loss of faculty autonomy. Education and science in general have an international character, but in every country there is also a national specifics. Analyzing the management problems we presume that every management model is «placed» in the current culture and history of each country. Education in general and, first of all, the higher education can be one of the factors of the consolidation and the development of contemporary Russian society. Education can be an universal value and a landmark for the development of the country. We are justifying the thesis that for the more effective management of the education system it is necessary to turn back to Russian and Soviet practice and re-edify the Ministry of Education with the strong commitment to the issues of secondary education.