ISSUES AND CHALLENGES OF THE USIVERSITY EDUCATION

Abstract

The article research the state of art in the education system where the university is considered the senior element joining education and science. The modern universities are stated to be in a crisis. The dream of returning to the Humboldtian classical university model is doomed to a fault, since this model corresponds the time of modern which has been passed. The commercialization and globalization of the universities and the excessive availability of the university education threatens with the loose of academic freedom, the freedom of scientific research and teaching art. Nearly entire simulation of the higher education, caused by the economical weakness, absence of the constant university traditions, the soviet past heritage and the low moral state of the society, is appended to these problems in Ukraine. The calls for the reforming of the Ukrainian education do not lead to a significant change. One of the reasons for that is misunderstanding of the development vector. Answering the call of the present time together with the international society but not trying to catch-up with the imaginary western education is to become the way to solving the problem of the Ukrainian university education.