ISCED Mapping to Pacific Education Systems Workshop on

ISCED Mapping to Pacific Education Systems Workshop on populating education indicators and standardising microdata Noumea New Caledonia 21 - 25 OCTOBER 2019

ISCED Mapping • classify national education systems according to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED). • essential tools for organizing information on national education systems. • ensure cross-national comparability of education statistics and indicators and assists in the interpretation of them. • ensure a transparent process of coding national education programmes into comparable categories for use in international statistics. • provide clear guidelines on how to report national education data for international purposes. • provides a statistical framework to classify diverse education systems in such a way that they can be compared across countries.

ISCED Levels of Education 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Early Childhood Education Primary Education Lower Secondary Education Upper Secondary Education Post School non-Tertiary Education Short cycle Tertiary Education Bachelor Degrees + Post Grad Certs/Dips Master Degrees Doctorates Pre-Schools / Kindergartens Schools TVET Providers University

ISCED Levels of Education

Qualification Frameworks • National and regional qualification frameworks can be useful tools for categorising knowledge, skills and competencies related to programmes and qualifications. • National qualification frameworks exist in many countries to describe competencies and skill levels for the population in the sense of educational achievement. • It is recommended that countries make the links transparent between ISCED and their national or regional qualification framework.

ISCED Mapping of Pacific Qualifications Framework ISCED 8: Doctorates ISCED 7: Master Degrees (& equivalent) ISCED 6: Bachelor Degrees (& equivalent) ISCED 5: Short-cycle Tertiary Education ISCED 4: Post-Secondary non-Tertiary Education ISCED 3: Post-Secondary non-Tertiary Education

ISCED Mapping – PIC Validation • • • • Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru Niue Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tokelau Tuvalu Vanuatu

ISCED Mapping to National Education Systems ISCED 3 Digit Codes 1 digit = Level (0 -8) 2 digit = Orientation (General, Vocational) 3 digit = Access to higher education

ISCED mapping comparisons