 The
higher education self-study/examination program is a form
of higher education for adults featuring a combination
of student self-study and state-sponsored examinations.
This is a creation by Chinese educators. After China began
implementing reform and open policies, young people had
a great learning enthusiasm and society needed large numbers
of skilled people. In 1981, educators, drawing on practices
abroad, opened the higher education door to people willing
to do self-study by using state-sponsored examinations,
which are authoritative, open and flexible. The self-study/examination
program offers professional training and undergraduate
courses, with the former predominating. Aside from specialities
and courses that are subject to national unified examinations,
some special courses are offered to students in rural
areas, the central and western regions of the country
and areas inhabited mainly by ethnic minority people.
The State
Council issued The Temporary Regulation on the Self-study
Examination of Higher |
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 Education
on March 3, 1988. This regulation specifies the character,
task, status, organization, specialties, examination method,
and graduation management of self-study examination institution
in the form of state administrative regulation and is
the beginning of the legislation of China self-study examination.
The 21st article of Higher Education Law of The People's
Republic of China coming into force on January 1, 1999,
regulates clearly that the country employs self-study
examination institution in higher education, and issues
corresponding certificates to students who pass the examination,
which specifies the character of self-study examination
institution in higher education in the form of legislation
and its important role in the basic institution of higher
education in China.
The aim
of self-study test in higher education is to promote extensive
self-study and society supporting activities on education
by the means of national examination, to promote the incumbency
vocational education and further education after university
graduation, to cultivate and select talents, and to enhance
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