POLITICO-ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS OF THE MODERN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM REFORM / ПОЛИТИКО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ПРОТИВОРЕЧИЯ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ РЕФОРМЫ СИСТЕМЫ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ

The article analyses theoretical questions on the formation of new economic relations structures connected with the organization and provision of educational services. It is shown that modern educational functionality has led to the separation of the educational space category as part of social space with the corresponding economic relations and motives which will objectively predetermine the priority trends of the development of an education system. Processes of interaction between a society and an intellectual elite are carried out by means of various mechanisms, and the roots of this interaction lie in society's traditional social institutes.