试论自学考试在推进科教兴国战略发展中的作用

On the Role of Self-taught Examination in Carrying out Developing the Country through Science and Education

党中央提出“科教兴国”的战略决策，把教育放在各项工作的首位，这是时代发展的需要，也是我国现代化建设的需要。随着知识经济时代的到来，优先发展教育，依靠教育和人才优势赢得目益激烈的国际竞争，已成为人们的共识。作为高等教育的重要组成部分，自学考试以其开放性、灵活性、高质量的特点，更有利于体现现代教育这一得天独厚的优势，更好地为经济建设和社会发展服务，是自学考试工作的发展方向。

The Central Committee calls for the strategic policy of ＂Developing the Country through Science and Education＂, put education in the first place, that is the result of the development of the era, and it＇s also the needs of our country＇s modernization. Along with the coming of the epoch of knowledge-based economy, to give priority to the development of education,relying on the advantage of education and talented people to win the increasingly intensive national competition has becoming the common knowledge of the people. As the main component of higher education, self-taught examination has the advantage of openness, flexibility, high quality,thus it＇ s more convenient for incarnating the nature-endowed advantage of modern education, the direction of the development of self-taught exam is to better serving the economic construction and social development.