Abstract:

Development of the conflict of contradictions between traditions of the Russian-Soviet higher school and modernist tendencies is analyzed on the example of the ideas and projects on attraction of foreign citizens for education in Russia. The article shows the debatable nature of ideas about the problem, the level of readiness of the Russian state to create and implement an "integral" system for mass attraction of foreign citizens to Russian universities. The article also presents the complexity of such plan implementation due to the vagueness of the list of conditions for the attraction of foreign citizens in the system of Russian education, the search for the necessary resources and the definition of risks and expected results in a market and competitive economy.

The results of this study are presented in the form of the abstracts for the further debate.

The problem of involvement of foreign citizens for training at the Russian universities consists in the conflict of contradictions of tradition and modernist tendencies. Essence and content of the conflict in crossing on this piece of historical development of two essentially various models of development of the country, and its political and economic systems. These are different public and economic ways which today, being crossed in consciousness and behavior of participants of educational process, leave marks of deep contradictions in an education system where faced the academic conservatism, political calls and commercial temptations.

Attempts to refuse a market and commercial paradigm both in society, and in education – are still unsuccessful. Commercialization of education is the main and only goal and it is demonstrated by projects in education, installations of government and state administrators, and managements of the universities. New projects are being prepared for the country's new government, which include creating conditions for the mass attraction of foreign students, who are credit wealthy and have good educational potential. However the enthusiasm of this time can be delusive and short. A number of letters to the President of Russian Federation from representatives of the Academy of Sciences, statements of trade unions of higher school workers, show that the future of Russian education does not fit into a commercialized trend or educational reform on the template of market relations.

Keywords:

International education, educational reform, Russian education.