成人高等教育在发展的过程中过分偏重学历教育、过于注重规模和效益,忽视了其应有的终身性、职业性以及服务性等特点,陷入了办学质量不高、社会信誉度下降、发展受阻的窘境。成人高等教育要实现全面转型,必须确立以学力提升、服务社会和符合职业特性的价值取向,才能健康、可持续地发展。 In the course of its development, adult higher education places too much emphasis on academic education, over-emphasis on its scale and effectiveness, ignores its due characteristics of lifelongness, occupation and service, and falls into the low quality of running a school, the decline of social credibility, Dilemma. For adult higher education to achieve a complete transition, it is necessary to establish a value orientation that enhances its academic ability, serves the society and complies with professional characteristics in order to develop healthily and sustainably.