EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA: RUSSIA ON THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

Abstract

International cooperation in the area of education is one of the key directions of Russian education and science Ministry and the most important tool in the process of integration of Russian science into the world educational and scientific-technological area. The paramount attention at the actual stage is paid to the development of mutually-profitable contacts within European space and, first of all, with the European Union. The work is carried out in order to improve the mechanisms and structure of interaction between Russia and European Union, to coordinate Russian and European scientific-technological and innovative priorities in the education area. The development of permanent education is a State political programme that is carried out with an active support by the society and aimed not only for the acceleration, but also deepening of the reformations.