【摘要】 高等教育自学考试是具有中国特色的高等教育形式。经过四十年的发展，自学考试以其独特的方式，为促进经济社会发展、提高公民素质，以及构建学习型社会等做出了重要贡献。自学考试四十年的发展历经了创立期、发展期和改革转型期等阶段，在不同时期都取得了阶段性的成就。但与此同时，自学考试面临的问题和挑战也是不容回避的。为应对挑战，未来自学考试应聚焦立德树人的根本任务，把握时代定位；打造创新服务的信息平台；强化主考学校的主体地位；拓展融合发展的改革思路。更多还原

【Abstract】 Self-taught examination for higher education is a kind of higher education with Chinese characteristics. After 40 years’ development, self-taught examination has made great contributions to promoting economic and social development, improving citizens’ quality and building a study-oriented society in its unique way. The development of self-taught examination has gone through three phases, namely, the establishment phase, the development phase and the reform and transformation phase, making great achievements in different stages. However, the self-taught examination is unavoidable to face many problems and challenges, which require that the future self-taught examination should focus on the fundamental task of fostering people’s virtue through education and grasp the orientation of the era, build an information platform for innovative services, strengthen the main position of the examiners’ school, and expand the thinking of integration, development and reform.更多还原