Modern Higher Education: Problems and Perspectives

The article deals with the problem of integration of the regional higher education system into the European educational space. According to the authors, one of the main tasks of modernization of the regional higher education system is the creation of a system of higher professional education of the third generation, which is supposed to solve, on the one hand, the problem of integrating into the Bologna Process and, on the other hand, the problem of elaboration of the concept of the Russian regional higher school modernization. Special attention is paid to the description of a new humanistic paradigm, based on the consistent attitude of the teacher to the student as an individual, an independent and responsible person with his own background, and at the same time as a member of educational process. The paper covers the main problems, which the system of the regional higher education may be confronted with, and defines the prospects of the regional education development.