Globalization of Higher Education: Social Contradictions and Trends

Abstract

The process of global competition have impact on the rearrangement of the world system, of its national borders and informational closeness. An intensive transnational mobility of the information, technologies and capital result in such situation when the labor market extends beyond the nation state limits. The market of educational services also turns to be borderless. The article discusses theoretical bases of these trends, that have directly effected sphere of education, which have transformed different education system into one European, while cultural differences have been preserved. The findings of empirical research are also discussed, which demonstrate contradictory processes of globalization of higher education. These processes are related to the increased role of supranational institutes of control, emergence of new forms of social inequality, dissemination of academic capitalism and managerialisation of university culture.