Old new trends in education: conversion of universities

The Russian higher school has been undergoing modernization for almost 30 years. The transformation covers the methodology, content, methods and the very organization of educational activities, based on trends in the development of education. The high level of uncertainty of external systems, coupled with the digitalization of all life activities, leaving an external contour, change the content of educational trends. Questions arise - how to maintain the significance and stability of the results of higher education in conditions of high dynamism and variability? Which way should universities move today in their development strategy? The authors carried out an analysis of global educational trends in education from the perspective of humanitarian dimensions, which determine, on the one hand, some stability of the received rational knowledge, and, on the other hand, ways to the development of a Person of the Future ready for a new complex world. In the course of the analysis, the potential of human conformity of the higher school (as opposed to human-centrism), based on the ideas of naturalness, cultural conformity and sociocentricity, is revealed. The results obtained can be used by the management and teaching staff of universities in designing strategic priorities of educational activities.