ISCED1997高等教育标准分类法.pdf

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC
AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
International
Standard
Classification
of Education
I S C E D 1997
November 1997
Preface
The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) was designed by
VESCO in the early 1970’s 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 when it adopted the Revised
Recommendation concerning the International Standardization of Educational Statistics at its
twentieth session (Paris, 1978).
Experience over the years with the application of ISCED by national authorities and
international organizations has shown the need for its updating and revision. This would
further facilitate the international compilation and comparison of education statistics and take
into account new developments and changes in education and anticipate future trends in the
various regions of the world, such as
the multiplication and growth of different forms of vocational education and training,
the increasing diversity of education providers, and
the increasing recourse to distance education and other modalities based on new
technologies.
The present classification, now known as ISCED 1997, was approved by the UNESCO
General Conference at its 29”’ session in November 1997. It was prepared by a Task Force
established by the Director-General to that effect and is the result of extensive consultations of
worldwide representation. ISCED 1997 covers primarily two cross-classification variables:
levels and fields of education.
UNESCO’s data-collection programme will be adjusted to these