Contemporary Issues of Digital Economy and Society. Higher education in an information society environment

The main characteristic of the information society is that the majority of the population is involved in the production of knowledge. The educational level of the person plays a significant role, as the information society places high demands on both the educational level of each individual and the institute of education as a whole. Higher education is a necessary prerequisite for raising the social status and obtaining the personality of the desired place in the modern society. Thus, the center of social organization, the main social institution is the higher school as a center of production, processing and accumulation of knowledge. It should be noted that in the information society, when information becomes of higher value, and the information culture of a person – the determining factor of professional activity, requirements to the higher education system change, there is a significant increase in its status.