Vol.4, No 1, 2007 pp. 1 - 7
UDC 37.014.54

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UKRAINE EDUCATION SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION UNDER CONDITIONS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESSES
Yu. V. Makogon, T.V. Orekhova
"International Economics" Department, Donetsk National University, Ukraine

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Education is going through a period of revolutionary changes. Becoming a commodity which is circulating in the global market, it is considered nowadays not as totality of skills relations and values necessary for fulfillment of civil duties and participation in society wealth growth, but as a commodity which is being obtained by consumer and it allows to form a system of skills and habits it is possible either to use in the market or to create something that could be bought (or sold) by multinational corporations, academic institutes, which have transformed into business structures or maybe other providers. Nowhere else than in debates about GATS (General Agreement on Trade and Services) is this tendency presented so clearly. The debates are taking place in frames of WTO (World Trade Organization). This is easy to understand because transformation of education into commodity will seriously influence imagination of people about studying at the university, rights of property, giving knowledge and real role of citizenship in modern society. Results of such a step are huge both for the life of states and for globalization and internalization of education.

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TRANSFORMACIJA UKRAINSKOG OBRAZOVNOG SISTEMA U USLOVIMA EVROPSKIH INTEGRACIONIH PROCESA Obrazovanje prolazi kroz period revolucionarnih promena. Transformacija obrazovanja u robu ozbiljno će uticati na svest ljudi o studiranju na univerzitetima, dajući znanju realnu ulogu u modernom društvu. Rezultati ovakvih koraka značajni su i za globalizaciju i internacionalizaciju obrazovanja..