SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CURRENT TRENDS

Abstract

The article describes the current trends in the development of higher education, given the dominant role of the concept of sustainable development. Education is an integral part of the modern world and is designed to meet the needs of diverse members of society, the functions and role of education are also important and significant. In the most general form, the role of education in society is the socialization and inculturation of its members. Education ensures the transfer of general knowledge and concepts of social experience, moral values and ethical norms from the older generations to the younger ones. No less important are the other functions of education: communicative and cognitive. Communication through education is more purposeful and individualized than through the media - print and electronic or through the expressive media inherent in different genres of art. Finally, the cognitive function of education is to promote knowledge of the world, the transmission of information. In modern conditions, when the integrity, complexity and integration potential of the world community, the level of anthropogenic impact on the environment, as well as the scale and pace of social change, any, even a small lag in human development, can cause very adverse consequences, education is designed to prevent this gap in the pace of change. The answer of the educational system to this need of the modern world is the formation of a holistic worldview, which provides a new way of thinking, and hence - the actions of a person who knows, understands society, knows how to live in a modern world with its diversity of cultures and lifestyles. long-term consequences of its activities and is able to give an adequate assessment of current life processes.

Thus, the trends of modern development of the higher education system outlined in the article push to a new paradigm of education, in which integration, communication and polystructurality play a key role. The openness of the higher education system is manifested in the constant updating and perception of new challenges, which is a prospect for further research.