社会主义和谐社会的理论内涵包括社会公平，教育公平尤其是高等教育公平是社会和谐的重要前提。不断完善和发展自学考试制度可以为解决高等教育不公平问题、构建社会主义和谐社会作出贡献。

The theoretical connotation of building socialist harmonious society theory includes social equity. The fairness of education especially the fairness of higher education is an important premise of building socialist harmonious society. Continuously improving and developing the system of selfstudy makes contribution to solving the problem of unfairness of higher education and the construction of harmonious society.