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Университет называется
As long as they call it University
The author considers the pointlessness of choosing between historical models of university. Instead, he proposes to find what is happening to knowledge today and whether it is relevant for higher education. Obviously, the internet and modern communication technologies affect the character of knowledge and the attitude towards it. The decline of the national state means a change of the principal partner and client of science. Now it is the individual customer who determines user-friendly content and form of knowledge. University bureaucracy does its best to satisfy his desires. It is this bureaucracy, not scholars-professors, who embody university now. Current trends in know- ledge and university are similar in Russia and in the West (the Bologna reform as a realization of the managerial turn), despite of the huge degree of corruption and plagiarism in the former.