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Higher Education, State and Market
Inomova Dilfuza Odilovna, Yuldasheva Matluba Munavarovna, Boynazarov
Azamat Sodiqovich, Boytemirova Zarina Dadajonovna
Kokand state pedagogical institute (Kokand, Uzbekistan)
Abstract. This article analyzes the peculiarities of interaction between University,
government and market at the present stage. The author considers the interaction
between the above parties as a fundamentally new situation, as in the recent past, it
was essentially restricted to two systems – the University and the state.
Key words: University, the state, the market, market relations, higher education,
globalization.
The relevance of the philosophical and sociological understanding of the
phenomenon of education is due to the crisis of the higher education system,
dissatisfaction with the results of almost all subjects of the educational process, in
stating the stiffness of educational institutions, in the gap between the level of
training and the needs of society.
The higher education system is involved in a new situational game where the
main players are the university, the market and the state. The interaction of the
above parties creates a fundamentally new situation, since in the recent past the case
was essentially limited to two players - the university and the state.
The university in its modern form, created by European scientific thought, if
we bear in mind its specifically German development - the creation of the state, has
traditionally been in close relations with the state and in relatively mediated relations
with the market. In the current situation, when state-market relations are rapidly
developing, with the intensification of the globalization process, the university finds
itself in a situation in which the state loses, with some exceptions, its former power,
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while the market increases its influence. The identity of the university, as
traditionally an important part of the social system, has been questioned, and its
spiritual, educational and cultural grounds have been challenged.
For centuries, the market had no influence on the higher education system.
Most universities in the world were created by the state and were funded by the
state. “By establishing a university, the state makes it an element of political
communication that forms the content of the state” [6]. This communication is the
most important of all and covers all other forms of communication-interaction that
have arisen based on the objective needs of life, but exist in the name of achieving a
good life. Therefore, the state determines the social, political and ontological
universality of the university.
At the end of the twentieth century, market relations invaded all universities in
the world. While the form and pace of change are different in different parts of the
world, they occur everywhere, regardless of our attitude towards them. For the first
time in history, the main founder of the university is a company subject to market
relations. The interaction within the company is limited to its owners and
employees; the object is associated with production activities, and the goal - with
private enrichment. In this regard, one must assume that the market system is
unlikely to burden itself by constructing a university as a means to give an
intellectual answer to all the challenges facing society and, moreover, to determine
the social, political and ontological universality of the university.
The state is trying to limit the role of the company, which in turn is trying to
free itself from the control of the state, by privatizing part of its authority, weakening
the university, reorienting it, or appropriating its achievements. Weakening consists
in depriving a university of the necessary resources (material, intellectual), or in
creating such conditions under which the university must carry out activities unusual
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for it. Reorientation is to change the content of university knowledge: instead of
knowledge relating to the common good (realized through national culture), the
university begins to produce knowledge divorced from it (in particular, liberal and
market theories).
“An important factor affecting the university is capitalism, which seeks to
expand not only horizontal (seizure of new markets), but also vertical (seizure of
new spheres of public relations). One of the directions of vertical expansion is the
seizure of education. Thus, a university that was an element of national culture,
whose center was the state, becomes an element of a market that does not have a
single center ”[6].
Market relations are new forces for higher education, which are part of the
neoliberal ideology and the powerful pressure of globalization. But globalization is
by no means a reversible and inevitable process. Any process, ultimately, is
generated and directed by people. In this case, it is fair to look at him precisely in the
light that he is imposed by people against their will. It is the United States and the
political forces of various countries that create the image of globalization as a
process of the inevitable, predetermined and inevitable. But what is created by man,
man can redo it. [7]
Traditionally, the mission of higher education indicated training, research and
social welfare. In the philosophical terms of the Enlightenment, the ideal of
education was the upbringing and development of an independent personality with a
strong focus on national identity.
With the advent of market forces in the arena of higher education, students are
increasingly perceived not as citizens, but as clients. Education turns into a
commodity intended for personal consumption, compared to its former purpose, as a
public good.
