Trying to justify the directions and factors of education quality improvement under the conditions of information society development and increase of competitiveness, the author tries to demonstrate that the development of society and state is based on innovations, innovative education and an innovative-creative-artistic individual that the higher school has to form. The article attempts to perform social diagnostics of higher education quality problems and to define the trends of development and improvement of education quality as innovative environment education, to analyze the problems of education quality in the context of society evolution from information society to “society of innovation”.