Pashchenko O. Economic bases of modernization of higher education in the conditions of becoming of economy of knowledge.

Research object: socio-economic relations, which arise up in the field of higher education in the conditions of becoming of economy, based on knowledge. Research purpose: determination of economic maintenance, basic descriptions and role of modernization of higher education in the making of economy of knowledge. Research methods: systematical and dialectical, analysis and synthesis, scientific abstraction, structurally functional and institutional analysis, and also the method of comparison of theoretical positions with practical results. Results, novelty: certainly, that the economy of knowledge forms co-operation of subjects of market relations, at which the user of knowledge takes part in its creation; basic priorities of modernization of higher education are the complex of measures in the field of propert, the field of competition and in the field of management; description of educational favour is improved by the sign of its individualization; the theoretical going got further development near diversification of higher education as unity of diversification of methods of grant of higher education and receipt of new knowledge; basic contradictions and features of modernization of higher education of Ukraine are certain. Sphere of the usage: in the practice of functioning of higher educational establishments, organs of management of higher education.