National strategies of higher education modernization in the Asian-Pacific countries: international comparative analysis

The article considers the issues of the higher education reform in a number of leading Asian-Pacific countries (USA, China, Russia) for the past decades. The evolution of resolutions successively taken by governments of these countries is traced as well as the measures to modernize the national higher education system and bring it in accordance with international educational standards and new challenges of the time, the comparison is made and the efficiency of the reforms in terms of the attained results is evaluated. Basing on the results of the comparative analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that despite the differences of every development strategies of high school implemented by states, they all contain a number of general trends: the move towards decentralization of universities and promotion their internationalization and also the diversification of funding sources.