1. Item 6.2 Joint UNESCO/OECD/Eurostat ISCED 2011 operational manual and guidelines for data collections
Eurostat-F5
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, April 2013

2. ISCED 2011 implementation – manuals
Strategy
The joint UNESCO/OECD/Eurostat ISCED 2011 operational manual
Timetable
25-26 April 2013
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, April 2013

3. 1. Strategy Work already started:
UNESCO: draft manual started some months ago
Eurostat and LSO network, together with the countries: Guidelines for the measurement of educational attainment: borderline cases, foreign qualifications, etc.
OECD: implementation of ISCED 0 in data collections, classification of tertiary education programmes
25-26 April 2013
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, April 2013

4. 1. Strategy (cont.) Proposal for 2 types of documents:
Joint UNESCO/OECD/Eurostat ISCED 2011 operational manual
Implementation guidelines for data collections
2a. Guidelines for the measurement of educational attainment
2b. Guidelines for the joint UOE data collection
25-26 April 2013
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, April 2013

5. 2. Joint UNESCO/OECD/Eurostat operational manual
Eurostat ISCED workshop, Feb. 2013: presentation of approach
issues of common interest for all data collections as regards classifications of programmes and qualifications
guidelines for data collections will make reference to it when needed (avoiding repetitions)
INES WP, March 2013: presentation of draft content
25-26 April 2013
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, April 2013

6. 2. Joint UNESCO/OECD/Eurostat operational manual (cont.)
Draft content
Introduction
One section per ISCED level 1-digit
Definitions and classification criteria
Boundaries, borderline cases
Examples of programmes, i.e. from ISCED mappings
Specific issues
Annexes
Summary table proposed by France (annex to doc ETS-10)
25-26 April 2013
Eurostat Ed10ucation and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, April 2013

7. Joint UNESCO/OECD/Eurostat ISCED 2011 operational manual
Guidelines on the measurement of
educational attainment
Guidelines for UOE data collection
Joint UNESCO/OECD/Eurostat
ISCED 2011 operational manual
UNESCO draft manual
ISCED O
Classification of tertiary education programmes
ISCED 2 & 3: completion ISCED 2, partial compl. of ISCED 3
Boundaries ISCED 4-5: classification of short post-secondary progr.
Boundaries ISCED 5-6: relationship with EQF, ISCED 97 "5B"
Implementa-tion of "orientation" (incl. academ. /profess.)
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ISCED 2011 operational manual: priority issues

8. 3. Timetable
Version 1 of
ISCED 2011 operational manual: priority issues
Educational attainment guidelines
End of May 2013
First draft of Joint UNESCO/OECD/Eurostat operational manual
October 2013
Discussion with countries (LSO, INES, ETS):
ISCED operational manual
Guidelines UOE data collection
Educational attainment guidelines: draft version 2
Till beginning 2014
ISCED 2011 operational manual
Educational attainment guidelines, version 2
Guidelines for the UOE data collection
2014, Quarter 1
25-26 April 2013
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, April 2013