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 · ISCED is a widely-used a global reference classification for education systems that is maintained and periodically revised by the UIS in consultation with Member States and other international and regional organizations. ISCED is the second major revision of this classification (initially developed in the s and revised in ). It was adopted by the . To=20 this end, an operational manual, aimed at giving guidance on the = interpretation=20 and practical application of ISCED , will be prepared in close = collaboration=20 with national experts. During the /99 biennium work on additional = aspects such as=20 types of education and education providers will be undertaken and = incorporated=20 in the present . ISCED - 7 - INTRODUCTION 1. ISCED is designed to serve as an instrument suitable for assembling, compiling and presenting comparable indicators and statistics of education both within individual countries and internationally. It presents standard concepts, definitions and classifications. ISCED covers all organized and sustained learningFile Size: KB.

The second version, known as ISCED , was approved by the UNESCO General Conference at its 29th session in November as part of efforts to increase the international comparability of education statistics. It covered primarily two cross-classification variables: levels (7) and fields of education (25). UNESCO has recently revised the ISCED levels (see ISCED ); at the time of revision it was decided to separate out the fields in an independent classification. In the ISCED both levels and fields were presented in the same manual. The ISCED fields is a two-level classification (classified in 8 broad fields and 24 narrow fields). Background. Education systems vary a lot between countries. International data on education should therefore be based on a classification which proposes, for all countries of the world, sound criteria for the allocation of education programmes to levels which can be considered as comparable. The ISCED classification - International Standard Classification of Education - was developed by UNESCO in the mids and was first revised in

Table 1: ISCED first digit and correspondence with ISCED ESS countries, interviewer instructions should be provided showing how these. International Standard Classification of Education – ISCED Classifying Educational Programmes, Manual for ISCED Implementation in OECD Countries. Classifying Educational Programmes: Manual for ISCED–97 Implementation in OECD Countries ( Ed.), OECD, Paris. United Nations Educational, Scientific and.