Abstract. Systematic work on the implementation of the process of self-education in higher education, teaching students to work independently, creatively and socially active, able to independently find their place in socio-political life, new staff with the ability to set and solve future tasks is the basis for the formation of the next generation. There fore, in this article we will try to reveal the pedagogical problems of modern forms used in the organization of self-education of students and ways to solve them.