TY - JOUR TI - Academic scholarship: pros and cons. On the higher education system of the service of the Russian State T2 - Educational Studies Moscow IS - Educational Studies Moscow KW - higher education KW - academic scholarship KW - a modernist society KW - service class AB - In the current article the author is pushing forward a thesis that supporters and opponents of academic scholarships adhere to different paradigms of education: the western modernist paradigm of education and the Russian paradigm of the state of service class. According to the first one higher education is a right; according to the second — the duty which is imposed by the state and for the fulfillment of which the state is ready to pay. Modern post-soviet higher education system in Russia is an eclectic mix of elements of both models.  AU - Rustem Vakhitov UR - https://archive_vo.hse.ru/en/2011--4/101083257.html PY - 2011 SP - 306-314 VL -