1. ISCED 2011 joint operational manual: Update

2. ISCED 2011 joint operational manual: Update
Draft chapters of all ISCED levels to be finalised by June 2014
Draft version of all ISCED levels sent to countries for review, June 2014
ISCED 0, 3, 4 draft chapters reviewed at INES-WP meeting in Paris, March 2014
ISCED 3 draft chapter reviewed at LSO meeting in Bratislava, February 2014
ISCED 0 and Tertiary draft chapters reviewed at INES meeting in London, October 2013
Draft table of contents agreed upon by the three agencies in August 2013

3. ISCED 2011 joint operational manual: Contents
Chapter
Organisational responsibility
Introduction
UIS
ISCED 0: Early childhood education
OECD (ECWG)
ISCED 1: Primary education
OECD
ISCED 2: Lower secondary education
ISCED 3: Upper secondary education
ISCED 4: Post-secondary non-tertiary education
Tertiary education introduction
ISCED 5: Short-cycle tertiary
Eurostat
ISCED 6: Bachelor or equivalent
ISCED 7: Master or equivalent
ISCED 8: Doctorate or equivalent

4. Structure of the table of contents: for each of the levels of education
Definition
Classification criteria
Complementary dimensions
Correspondence between ISCED 2011 and ISCED 1997
Guidelines for classifying programmes and their related recognised qualifications
Educational attainment
Examples of programmes and qualifications

5. Exit from education system /
Tertiary education: Examples (included in the OM) cover all the ISCED “blocks”
Exit from education system /
labour market entry
544/554
665
666
667
766
767
864
768
ISCED level 3 or 4 completion with direct access to first tertiary education programmes at ISCED level 5, 6 or 7

6. ISCED operational manual: some annexes
Summary table of ISCED 2011 criteria
A figure of possible pathways between the 3-digit ISCED-P codes
A quick reference between ISCED-P and ISCED-A codes.
An Introduction will be included in the final version of the document

7. Next steps
Publication of the ISCED operational manual, December 2014
Slight improvements of the OM still possible (examples, editing) by November 2014
Send-out of UOE-2014 instruments (including draft version of ISCED OM),  Beginning of July 2014
Comments for this draft possible by 1st July 2014
First draft version of all ISCED levels sent to countries for review, 17th June 2014

8. The ETS Working Group is invited to:
DISCUSS the timeline for the ISCED 2011 joint operational manual
SUGGEST further problematic classifications issues that may need to be considered for the ISCED 2011 joint operational manual