Competitiveness of National Systems of Higher Education in the context of Preserving Their Cultural Identity

Abstract

The article shows that searching for the concepts, social technologies and tools for improving the competitiveness of national higher education systems restrains the absence of new ideas as for demand of the preservation of their cultural identity. National systems of higher education were formed as an element of a national state and within the degradation their future existence began to be called in doubt. Its commercialization seriously accelerated the review process is the role of national higher education systems, resulting in a dominance of economic criteria of evaluation of functioning institutions of higher education, including such universal criteria as competitiveness. The problem of competitiveness of the system of higher education and the preservation of its cultural identity is up to date in societies that are «lost» in a globalized world, lose distinctive mental features, do not see prospects for its development, suffer from copying experiments and inferiority complex.