At the beginning of the article, the author compiled a bibliography on archival education, which has increased conisderably in the last decades. In Eastern and Central European countries, the archival education is, almost as a rule, concentrated at the universities. The role of university eduction is to prepare graduates for academic professions. In aspects of future development, we are convinced that archivists with academic education will loose several duties connected to the arrangement and description of modem records and employ assitant archivists - professionals with a higher vocational education - for these duties. In a far greater degree than the education of academic staff, the vocational education will have to be aimed at information and documentary information sciences.