On Educational Function of Second Academic Certificate for Self-taught Examination at the Popularization Stage of Higher Education

Self-taught Examination is facing various challenges at the popularization stage of higher education. The continuing educational function needs to be fully tapped and the education focus should be transferred from the compensatory education of the first academic certificate to the second academic certificate. The independent undergraduate section of Self-taught Examination aims to provide undergraduate education considered as a kind of second academic certificate education, which is for those who have gotten the certificate of college degree or above.How to bring the educational function of the second academic certificate into full play is one of the most important breakthroughs for the development of Self-taught Examination and is also one of the most important measures to promotetheconstruction of learning-oriented society.