CONTEMPORARY ISSUES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURAL AND ACMEOLOGICAL APPROACH
This paper addresses a number of issues related to functioning of the higher education system, using the cultural and acmeological approach. It includes data collected through analysis of specialised literature and electronic sources, study of teaching activity products and monitoring of the education process in Russian and foreign institutions of higher education. The cultural and acmeological approach involved the use of knowledge-intensive classes of phenomena such as traditions, novations, continuity and dialogue of cultures. The contributors include post-graduate students and faculty of the Belgorod State National Research University (Russia, city of Belgorod), M.Utemisov West Kazakhstan State University (Republic of Kazakhstan, city of Uralsk) and High School No.3. (Kazakhstan, city of Uralsk) in 2021. The findings obtained by comparing modern trends in the establishments of higher education in Russia, neighbouring CIS countries (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova and Ukrain) and non-CIS countries (France, Great Britain, Germany and the USA) show that in modern society, the above trends are closely connected to the cultural studies and acmeology of higher education. The establishments of higher education in the neighbouring CIS countries are broadly divided into two groups: institutions that are geared towards the educational system of and trends in Russian colleges and those that apply methods used in the non-CIS countries. Basically, the establishments of higher education in the non-CIS countries structurally follow the Bologna concept of education. However, they seek to maintain and promote the main principals and peculiarities of the national systems of education and preserve their own culture, taking into consideration scientific and technological advances, new requirements of the local and international markets as well as current issues of multiculturalism, increased funding of higher education and comparison with education systems of other countries.