1. Graduate data and indicators
ETS WG, 31 January-2 February 2005
Agenda Item 6.1
document 2005-ETS-06.1-EN

2. Education and Training Statistics Working Group
Graduate data:
High policy relevance
Used in many of the Commissions political initiatives - Structural Indicators, SGIB, Socrates, S&T indicators for the European Research Area etc
Numerous requests for graduate data also for other and ad-hoc needs
Education and Training Statistics Working Group

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Graduates
There is a need for data on the number of new graduates, in total and in specific fields, available for the labour market
As well as the net graduation rate and the number in the population which has attained a higher level of education
Education and Training Statistics Working Group

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Graduates
Problems met, when reporting and when using graduate data
What to compare when degree structures are so different?
Why count only graduates which have completed the final year of the programme?
Why not count all fields of graduation?
Many missing in first-time graduates means no information on new attainments and net graduation rates
PhD graduates can not be distinguished and data on post-doc graduates are not collected
Changing degree structures change the graduate and the graduation numbers
Complicated questionnaires
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Graduates
The duplication problem….
Graduates can be counted
once in a life-time only
once per year only
at every graduation – in one year or in different years
Only once ’climbing along the national degree ladder’
And we should need data on all types
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Graduates
Data on ISCED 6 graduates are of special policy interest:
The amount of advanced research education
The number of new PhD’s
The number of post-doc graduates
The ISCED 6 level is reserved for tertiary programmes that lead directly to the award of an advanced research qualification, but not only to PhD programmes.
Therefore a need to distinguish PhD and post-doc graduates in the data collection
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Graduates - proposals
To keep the overall methodology to collect data both on all graduates according to the different national degree structures and on first-time graduates
To drop the collection of data on first-time graduates by cumulative duration
To move from graduates to graduations in GRAD5 (by fields)
To split ISCED 6 into 3 categories
To reorganise GRAD 2 and GRAD4 to reduce the amount of ‘grey-marked’ cells
To start to collect data according to the BaMa structure, also from countries where it is not yet implemented
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10. Education and Training Statistics Working Group
UOE 2005 time table
- First reactions from “Eurostat” countries at the ETS WG.
- Written comments from all UOE data providers
by 23 February 2005.
to the joint address:
Remark: no need to comment on old formulas kept in sheets or wrong references between sheets as they have not yet been updated.
Objective:
Launch the UOE 2005 data collection by the end of March 2005
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