In the article the author considers Higher Public Schools (HPS) as a social and pedagogical phenomenon observable in practice. The presented educational model ways of developing within Russian educational system are determined. The article examines its humanitarian content and high potential to accomplish this educational model. The HPS for elderly people established in Russia are in the focus. This enables to emphasize the basic organization models of HPS activity, as well as to determine features and perspectives of their developing in modern Russia as an area for elderly people social self-realization

1. Higher Public Schools in the educational system of modern Russia: theory and practice : monograph / ed. by N. P. Litvinova, O. V. Gordina. – Irkutsk SPb. : ESSAE, 2009. – 240 р.