NEOLIBERALISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE PROSPECTS FOR POST-COVID EDUCATION

This article is about a new round of the global crisis in higher education, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The purpose of the research is to conduct a systematic analysis of modern foreign literature on neoliberalismin the educational sphere and to identify the factors of influence of neoliberal concepts on the sphere of higher education during a pandemic.

The methodology of this study was a systematic analysis of foreign scientific research literature devoted to the issues of neoliberalism, axiological problems of higher education and globalization. Were studied 20sources, including the work of leading foreign scientists-philosophers M. Apple, A. Giroud, S. McCloskey and others. The works selected for the study cover the time period from 2000 to the present day.

Originality / value of the research. In the course of the analysis of the literature, the factors that influenced the quality and eff ectiveness of higher education are considered, and the prospects for postformeducation in the future are presented. Separately considered is such a direction as neoliberalism, which is the ideology of globalization, the global agenda. The opinion is substantiated that the pandemic did not create problems in the field of higher education, but only exacerbated those that already existed. The article provides an overview of the opinions of foreign scientists, presents their strategies for overcoming the global higher education crisis associated with both the pandemic and the neoliberal (market) approach to education.

Findings. The neoliberal model of education, based on fi erce competition, individualism and free trade, failed in the era of the pandemic. It seems that the future prospects for the development of higher education in the world will be revised towards reducing the influence of neoliberalism and the market, strengthening state control and financing in this area, humanizing, humanitarianization, fundamentalizing and greening the sphere of higher education.

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