1. ETS WG, 22-23 January 2004 Agenda Item 5 document ETS05.05
Student mobility
ETS WG, January 2004
Agenda Item 5
document ETS05.05

2. Education and Training Statistics WG, 22-23 January 2004
Background
2002:
European Parliament SSME study
Statistics on Student Mobility within the European Union (Ute Lanzendorf and Ulrich Teichler, Centre for Research on Higher Education and Work, Kassel University, Germany)
Recommendations on further criteria to identify mobile students
Education and Training Statistics WG, January 2004

3. Implementation of recommendations in a pilot data collection
Mobile student is defined as a student enrolled in the reporting country who, irrespective of his/her nationality, has completed his/her upper secondary education in another country
Additional variable to be collected: country of prior education
Information to be collected for
all tertiary education students and
for students having foreign or home nationality
for the total of part time and full time students
Education and Training Statistics WG, January 2004

4. Categories of students that it will be possible to identify
Type
Nationality
Prior education
Non mobile nationals
Home
reporting country
Non mobile foreign
foreign
Returning nationals
home
other
Incoming foreign
Education and Training Statistics WG, January 2004

5. (including nationality of the reporting country) NATIONALITY
NUMBER OF STUDENTS (ISC 5/6) BY LEVEL OF EDUCATION, PROGRAMME DESTINATION, NATIONALITY AND COUNTRY OF PRIOR EDUCATION
ALL NATIONALITIES
(including nationality of the reporting country)
NATIONALITY
OF THE REPORTING COUNTRY
Country of prior education 5B
5A/6
Total tertiary
Europe
Asia
(it total 211 positions)
Education and Training Statistics WG, January 2004

6. Education and Training Statistics WG, 22-23 January 2004
Proposal
2004
Finalise the proposal in discussion with the education data providers and users
Discuss with UIS and OECD the possibility to include this as a UOE table
2005
Eurostat (or UOE table) pilot table
Education and Training Statistics WG, January 2004

7. Education and Training Statistics WG, 22-23 January 2004
The ETS WG is invited to
- provide first comments on the proposal for a 2005 pilot data collection
- advise on the possibility of including this in the regular data submission (Eurostat or UOE)
Education and Training Statistics WG, January 2004