Commercialization of Russian higher education: historical and logical counterpoints
The article builds an historicological chain which takes into account all current tendencies and delineates certain patterns in the development of higher education in Russia. N. G. Yakovleva considers main factors in the process of commercialization of higher education in Russia (privatization, transformation of education into an education service, major universities morphing into commercial corporations, merger of education and business, globalization of education) since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the country’s transition to market capitalist economy. The article identifies main challenges associated with the commercialization of education (development of an elitist model of education, education imperialism, financialization of education) and explains that not only Russia, but the entire global system of education is susceptible to these risks