University Systems Development in the Knowledge Society: positive Elements of Past Experience

Under the influence of globalization, the inevitable convergence of initially different educational and scientific structures occurs, which leads to a change in the methods, forms and technologies for the production of fundamental knowledge. In the changed sociocultural conditions, domestic universities are often required to do so much that they are not able to give an adequate answer to the challenges of our time. The paper compares the most successful world conceptions of university education development in the conditions of the emerging knowledge society, reveals the positive elements of the historical development of the domestic university system, identifies constraints that impede the development of the university in Russian socio-cultural conditions.