Abstract
Establishing the new society is accompanied by a global intellectualization of the entire economic system influencing the development of information, scientific and innovative branches of the indusry. The key factors of the society develpment are information and knowledge. An important quality of a modern employee is the ability for continuous training. Currently, the interest to education has significantly increased as well as the demand for education and the educational level of employees. Education is one of the most vital values, meeting the natural needs of humans in the knowledge of the external world and themselves. The growth of social demand for education in the evolution of social development has led to the gradual transformation of the elite educational institutions into the institutions for everyone. For most people nowadays, higher education has become not only sustainable, but one of the most significant values. The successful development of knowledge-based economy could be provided by the employees not only having a high degree, but having a desire for the continuous lifelong knowledge development.
Highlights
The present stage of social development is characterized by the global changes which are the result of the industrial society transformation into the society of the new type
The value orientation is a special social attitude of people towards certain values, which is represented in the mind as an object, which a person needs in order to meet the requirement
In contemporary Russia there is a special attitude to higher education
Summary
The present stage of social development is characterized by the global changes which are the result of the industrial society transformation into the society of the new type. Later, in the late 60s of the last century Peter Drucker introduced a new scientific term "knowledge-based economy." The main capital of such an economy is human resources, and their values as the main productive force are characterized by the extent of their mastery of the modern knowledge [3]. The increase of public demand on education in the conditions of flexible postindustrial economy Investigation of the world around to adapt to its environment for further comfortable existence is one of the essential human needs. In the process of social evolution development, the need of humans in the knowledge has transformed into the existing type of activity – educational system.
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