One of the features of Akari Course Builder is the application of standards in order to make information more transparent and searchable. Course Builder uses "Fields of Study" as one of its reference points and these are based on the ISCED standard.

The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) was designed by UNESCO 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 International Standardization of Educational Statistics at its twentieth session (Paris, 1978).

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

  1. Fields of Study Explained

    There is a logic to standards. This document presents the rationale. Skip to section II BROAD GROUPS AND FIELDS OF EDUCATION if you want to avoid too much background!

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