1. Item 8 – Learning mobility data in UOE
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

2. Learning mobility in UOE
Defined as physical crossing of national borders to participate in tertiary education
Excluded: distance learning, foreign-based institutions in a home country of a student
Main concepts:
country of origin and country of destination
degree and credit mobility
UOE Manual, section 2.8 and 2.11
Methodological Manual on LM
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

3. Learning mobility in UOE
Degree mobility
Credit mobility
Statistical unit
Students and graduates
Graduates
Provided by
Country of destination
Country where graduate was enrolled
Type of mobility
Inward
Outward
Geographical scope
Data provided by ESS countries to Eurostat and some non-ESS countries to OECD and UIS
Data provided by ESS countries
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

4. Learning Mobility in HE benchmark
EU benchmark:
By 2020, an EU average of at least 20 % of higher education graduates should have had a period of higher education-related study or training abroad, representing a minimum of 15 ECTS credits or lasting a minimum of three months.
Scope: outward mobility
Not measured → it requires worldwide data and two types of mobility data (degree and credit mobile graduates)
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

5. Learning Mobility in HE benchmark
Definition in Eurostat Methodological Manual on LM:
Number of EU-origin mobile graduates (i.e. either credit or degree mobility categories, with a minimum length of 3-month stay abroad) expressed as a percentage of all graduates whose origin (i.e. country of upper secondary diploma) is in the EU:
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

6. Learning Mobility in HE benchmark
The reference population (denominator) is the population of graduates with country of origin in the EU. The numerator is a subset of this population (those qualifying for being deemed as mobile),
The data on degree mobile graduates with origin in the EU needed from non-EU countries.
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

7. Degree mobile students and graduates
Degree mobility is defined as the physical crossing of a national border to enrol in a degree programme at tertiary-level in the country of destination
Measured within each tertiary ISCED level (ISCED levels 5 to 8 according to the ISCED 2011 classification) in relation to the country of origin i.e. country where upper secondary diploma was awarded or the best national estimate
Data collected since 2013
Data in UOE17 not provided by: FR (end of derogation in 2017), SK – reminders will be sent
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

8. Degree mobility - Country of origin
Commission Regulation 912/2103: country where upper secondary diploma was awarded or the best national estimate
Different concepts are applied in EU countries (UOE17):
Upper secondary diploma (14 EU Member States)
Previous education (1 EU Member State)
Citizenship (5 EU Member States)
Usual residence/Previous residence (8 EU Member States)
For compilation of outward mobility indicators it would mean use of inward mobility country data based on different criteria.
Are more countries planning to move to "upper secondary diploma" criteria?
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

9. Degree mobility Data published by Eurostat: inward mobility
reported by ESS countries by country of origin
Needed for LM benchmark:
Outward mobility (outward data for a given country compiled based on data provided by other countries)
Worldwide coverage (data reported to OECD and UIS by non-ESS countries for EU-origin graduates, incomplete e.g. no data on mobile graduates from USA)
To be possibly compiled by other institutions, not Eurostat
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

10. Credit mobile graduates
First transmission of data on graduates who have had a 'credit mobility' stay in UOE 2017 (referring to the school/academic year 2015/2016 as defined nationally or the calendar year 2016)
Data not provided by: BE, EE, IE, PL (derogation), IS, TR – reminders will be sent
Guidelines are available on Circabc (Learning Mobility Manual + Questions/Answers on credit mobility)
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

11. Credit mobile graduates
Credit mobility is defined as temporary tertiary education or/and study-related traineeship abroad within the framework of enrolment at "home institution" for the purpose of gaining academic credit.
Within scope of formal education and leading to a degree.
Types of mobility: academic lessons and/or work placement/internship/traineeship provided that they are relevant for study programmes in which students are enrolled.
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

12. Credit mobility – new online tables
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

13. Credit mobility Data published by Eurostat: Outward mobility
Reported by ESS countries by country of destination
Data collected on credit mobility of all graduates in the home institutions of the reporting country regardless of their country of origin
At least three months abroad (more than 15 ECTS points) in online tables (educ_uoe_mobc1 and mobc2) and less than three months abroad (educ_uoe_mobc3; voluntary provision)
Needed for LM benchmark:
Number of credit mobile graduates who were not degree mobile (i.e. those who had their upper secondary education diploma in the reporting country)
Collected in CREDMOB1-SCHEME by ISCED and sex
Missing: CZ, EL, HR, HU
Equal to total number of credit mobile graduates: DE, MT, RO, SE
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

14. Future of the LM benchmark
Ongoing reflection in DG EAC on the definition of the benchmark post-2020
Decisions to be taken on the type (inward/outward), geographical scope (ESS/worldwide) – related to that compiling entity (Eurostat/other)
Eurostat data as set in Commission Regulation 912/2013 within the remit of its competence: ESS countries
Methodological documents developed by Eurostat and Task Force in 2013 available on CIRCABC
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018

15. Summary
The ETS WG has been informed on the state of play of the UOE data collection on Learning Mobility
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2018