PRECONDITIONS OF DEVELOPING MULTICULTURALITY IN HIGH EDUCATION SYSTEM
The article is devoted to the key conditions in developing polycultural education of students. The change of the Russian political and economic system has brought to the modernization and further development of the education system, because as far this system is open, the latter cannot ignore the changes in society. There is a necessity to transfer the priorities of high education. The change of ideological paradigm contributes to deepening contacts with representatives of foreign language cultures and intensive increase of interest to traditions of other nations and their cultures. Modern Russian society raises a number of issues, which are connected with solving the problem of peaceful coexistence and mutual enrichment of different cultures that make it. The head purposes in the sphere of education deal with overcoming social and economic and spiritual crisis of society, national security, Russian recovery in the global community as a great power in the sphere of education, culture, science and high technologies. The main attention in this system of Russian education efficiency is paid to the problem of developing multicultural directivity of higher education.