The idea of the university. Untimely or necessary?

The article raises the question about whether modern research in the field of University education and public debate about its role, sufficient for the existence of the higher school. An important objective of the study is the resolution the following questions: what scientific unions were the first to fit this concept? What made them universities? Can the appeal to an unchanging content of University ideas to help overcome observed at the high school crisis in our time? What is the role of philosophy in this process?