ISCED

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The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) was designed by UNESCO in the early 1970s to serve ‘as an instrument suitable for assembling, compiling and presenting statistics of education both within individual countries and internationally’. It was approved by the International Conference on Education (Geneva, 1975), and was subsequently endorsed by UNESCO’s General Conference.

The present classification, now known as ISCED 1997, was approved by the UNESCO General Conference at its 29th session in November 1997.

[edit] ISCED defined levels of education

Level	Description
Level 0	Pre-Primary Education
Level 1	Primary Education or First Stage of Basic Education
Level 2	Lower Secondary or Second Stage of Basic Education
Level 3	(Upper) Secondary Education
Level 4	Post-Secondary Non-Tertiary Education
Level 5	First Stage of Tertiary Education (Not leading directly to an advanced research qualification)
Level 6	Second Stage of Tertiary Education (Leading to an advanced research qualification)

[edit] Links

1. Link to the complete text of ISCED 1997 document