SHADOW RELATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND QUALITY OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION
In the article authors presented the main conclusions which have made a basis of a hypothesis of a research of the shadow relations in the sphere of the higher education by results of processing and interpretation of sociological interview. Anonymous questioning has allowed to present the following initial conclusions for the theoretical analysis: 1) society sees the main problem of the higher education in the high cost of training, but not in corruption of system; 2) in reality at most every tenth student faces to bribery as the phenomenon in the sphere of professional education that allows to assume about stability of stereotypes of public opinion; 3) the main reason of corruption seems in the low level of compensation of teachers. The further analysis of results of interview has allowed to assume that the dichotomy of the educational service bearing to consumers, on the one hand, the value of knowledge, and, on the other hand, the value of the status which gives the diploma causes processes of a shadow economy expansion in the sphere of the higher education. Differences between formal and actual target installations and the interests of participants of paid educational services allow to formulate the first working hypothesis of a research: informal the practician points wide circulation that the value of the status of the diploma is more preferable than the value of professional knowledge to the domestic consumer of paid educational services. The second working hypothesis (hypothesis investigation) consists that in the course of commercialization of Higher Education Institutions there is a reduction of the higher education understood as a situation when society gradually perceives the higher education (bachelor degree) as an analog of secondary professional education that forces system to develop the mechanisms compensating negative consequences of commercialization of higher educational institutions.