The article examines “order of the day” of higher education modernization processes at the context of two major trends of social transformations at the beginning of ХХІ century – globalization processes and information society establishing ones. It is shown that as an answer to these tendencies higher education sphere is modernized by form in terms of organizational changes as well as by content. The author stands on position that there is a need of deep theoretical surveys used methods of philosophy (...) of education to substantiate modernization processes. Mentioned surveys have potential to find the ways of qualitative incorporation of higher education sphere into complicate social dynamics of present days. (shrink)