Zelenskaya L.L.
CULTURAL ASPECTS OF EDUCATION ^{[№ 1 ' 1999]}
The author analyses the historical background and the current situation in higher education in Russia. For many decades education had to meet the goals and needs of the ruling party. Now that Russia has undergone drastic changes education is facing new problems including humanization, differentiation, individualization and integration. Because of these new concerns there is a problem of creating a new university environment since it is impossible to educate new generations of professionals with a different human mentality within the old system. A university student should be "placed" in the crossroads of educational, scientific and cultural segments of the new university environment.