THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE SPHERE OF COMMERCIAL HIGHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
The state legalized the emergence of private education, which has developed rapidly since the adoption of the Law "About education" of the Russian Federation in 1992. According to government statistics 45% of Russian universities are private ones with an enrollment of nearly 1 million students, that is about 14% of the total contingent. On the one hand, the commercial education has been recognized but, on the other, it is not fully defined education reform of what type exactly is necessary in Russia and what place commercial education should occupy in it.
Irina V. Kalacheva, a seeker of Social Management and Management of Education Department at the Volga State SocialHumanitarian Academy, Samara.