China: Allocation of National Education Programmes to ISCED97
WEI 2007*
Theoretical starting age
Theoretical ending age
Theoretical cumulative
Theoretical duration of
years of education at
the programme (in
the end of the
programme
(in years)
(in years)
years)
ISCED97 Programme Country description of
Entrance requirements Qualifications awarded Notes
level orientation programme
0 Pre-primary 3-4 6-7 3 … Mostly full-time.
ISCED97 Flow
1 Primary 6-7 11-13 5-6 5-6
0
Lower secondary (junior
2A General 11-12 14-16 3-4 8-10
secondary school)
Programme offered in special schools in 1
rural areas, aims at training workers,
Pre-
2C Lower secondary 12 15 3 8-9 peasants and employees in other sectors
vocational
with basic professional knowledge and
certain professional skills.
General/Pre- Upper secondary (senior
3A
vocational secondary school)
15 18 3 11-13 2A 2C
General/Pre-
Upper secondary (senior
3B vocational/V 15 18 3 11-13
secondary school)
ocational
Upper secondary (senior
3C Vocational 15 18 3 11-13
secondary school) 3A/B 3C
Generally, occupationally specific training
Post-secondary, non-
4A … … … … but at a lower level than programmes
tertiary
reported in 5B.
Secondary and pass
5B Tertiary, non-university national undergraduate Diploma 18 20-21 2-3 13-16 Generally, occupationally specific training.
entrance examination
5B (2nd) Tertiary, non-university … … … … 5B 5A 4A
Secondary and pass
5A (1st,
University national undergraduate Bachelor's degree 18 22 4 15-17
medium)
entrance examination
Secondary and pass
5A (1st,
medium)
University national undergraduate Bachelor's degree 18 23 5 16-18 Engineering and medicine. 6
entrance examination
5A (2nd) Master's Bachelor's degree Master's degree 22 24-25 2-3 17-20
6 Doctorate Master's degree Doctorate 24-25 27-29 3-4 20-24
* Published on-line only as part of the UIS publication "Education counts: Benchmarking progress in 19 WEI countries. World Education Indicators - 2007" (see: www.uis.unesco.org/publications/WEI2007)
A, B, C = Destination categories
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