1. UOE
Some conclusions of the UOE sub-group and Action plan for follow up
Other news
ETSWG, Jan 2003
Agenda item VII.1
document ETS12.1
Mary Dunne

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3. change in reporting and ISCED mapping
Ms. Mies Bernlot Moens gave a presentation on the Bologna process in the Netherlands and raised the following issues
change in reporting and ISCED mapping
possible repercussions on educational attainment and time series
Eurostat will send out a questionnaire to get structured feedback …………... April 2003 2

4. Now part of the annual UOE data collection for ISCED levels 1 and 23

5. Eurostat will make a proposal to UIS and OECD on agreeing:
a mathematically valid method to calculate this indicator
to use this method consistently in all international publications
Methodology to be completed and proposed to UIS and OECD by March 2003

6. ISCED 6
Eurostat undertook to prepare a quick survey to evaluate the comparability problems of ISCED 6 (PhD or equiv.) reporting
Survey now ready and will be sent to countries in the first week of February week deadline

7. Part-time attendance and part-time programmes
Eurostat will propose new draft instructions for the UOE on reporting different combinations of part-time attendance and part-time programmes
Instructions completed by March 2003

8. Full-time + Part-time Teachers
Eurostat will organise an exchange of information on how to exclude double counting in the total number of teachers when adding full-time to part-time
Information sent to countries by April 2003

9. The distinction between School and non-school establishments at ISCED level 0 will be dropped as the definition of ‘school’ is not clear
Countries were reluctant to include a separate row for expenditure on ministries and other administrative units, so there will be no such change to the finance questionnaire for the moment 3

10. Other News Unique address for UOE transmission (Stadium)
Statistics in Focus and validation of data
Socrates
Proposal from the joint UIS/ Eurostat Workshop held in Bucharest in Sept. 2002

11. Unique address for UOE transmission (Stadium)
Eurostat proposed to OECD to have a unique address to send the UOE questionnaires (Stadium).
This is a transparent way of communication that will avoid the overflow of messages and the loss of original or updated UOE questionnaires.
Test (also with OECD) in January 2003.

12. How Stadium will work
If the test goes smoothly this method will be used in the 2003 data collection.
The countries will send questionnaires to a UNIQUE address and the files will be stored and automatically forwarded to all actors on the requester side.
The country representative will have a “receipt” of the send-out.
The requesters will be able to have reports of all flows of messages.

13. Statistics in Focus and Validation of data
February
Validation of basic indicators using non-monetary data through an annual Statistics in Focus
"Education in Europe - Key figures"
March
Release of SiF "Education in Europe - Key figures"

14. Allocation of funds to the Socrates decentralised actions
Past
Full-time-equivalent teachers = full-time-teachers + half of the part-time teachers.
Now
New methodology…FTE = FTE in Pers2
Fairer... the same methodology is used for every country (Portugal is an exception as it can only provide data for the total number of teachers = total full-time + total part-time).

15. One of the proposals from joint UIS/ Eurostat Workshop Bucharest Sept
Eurostat should develop indicators on "survival rates” (including repetition rate, dropout rate and promotion rate)
Development work will be done in Spring 2003