Socio-cultural generation gap as a new challenge to the university world

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of the challenges currently facing the system of higher education at large, and the socio-cultural generation gap between the main actors of the education process that belong to different generations – the student and academic communities – in general. The authors consider the reasons that brought about the above “gap crisis”, its externals, consequences for the university world and the ways to face them. Noted is the fact that, under the massovization of higher education coupled with simplistic and pragmatic approaches to education at large, it is up to innovative entrepreneurial universities to search for certain ways to mitigate the socio-cultural gap and face other contemporary challenges the university world has recently confronted.