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UK Educational Levels (UKEL)

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UKEL summary

The UK Educational Levels (UKEL) list provides a set of high-level terms to name educational levels across all UK educational sectors.

The list comprises the following terms:

Note that the terms should be used exactly as shown here.

These terms correspond directly with their equivalent terms in the Scottish Curriculum Qualifications Framework (SCQF) - see below.

UKEL usage

The UKEL list can be used in IEEE LOM, IMS and qualified DC metadata.

IEEE LOM

In IEEE LOM metadata, use a term from the UKEL list as a value for the '9.2.2 taxon' element within '9. classification'. '9.1 purpose' should be set to "educational level" and '9.2.1 source' should be set to "UKEL". For example: 

  <classification>
    <purpose>
      <source>LOMv1.0</source>
      <value>educational level</value>
    </purpose>
    <taxonPath>
      <source>
        <string language="x-none">UKEL</string>
      </source>
      <taxon>
        <entry>
          <string language="x-none">UK Educational Level 5</string>
        </entry>
      </taxon>
    </taxonPath>
  </classification>

IMS

In IMS metadata, use a term from the UKEL list as a value for the '9.2.2 taxon' element within '9. classification'. '9.1 purpose' should be set to "Educational Level" and '9.2.1 source' should be set to "UKEL". For example: 

  <classification>
    <purpose>
      <source>
        <langstring xml:lang="x-none">LOMv1.0</langstring>
      </source>
      <value>
        <langstring xml:lang="x-none">Educational Level</langstring>
      </value>
    </purpose>
    <taxonpath>
      <source>
        <langstring xml:lang="x-none">UKEL</langstring>
      </source>
      <taxon>
        <entry>
          <langstring xml:lang="x-none">UK Educational Level 5</langstring>
        </entry>
      </taxon>
    </taxonpath>
  </classification>

Qualified DC

In qualified DC metadata, use a term from the UKEL list as a value for the 'dcterms:educationLevel' property. Set the encoding scheme to 'meg:UKEL' (where 'meg' corresponds to the 'http://purl.org/meg/terms/' namespace). For example: 

  <dcterms:educationLevel xsi:type="meg:UKEL">UK Educational Level 5</dcterms:educationLevel>

UKEL mappings

Mappings across a range of educational levels is provided in the table below. This table was created by Gerry Graham, Learning and Teaching Scotland.

SCQF Scottish NQ NVQ SVQ NICATS GNVQ General Qualifications Scottish Schools Scottish Higher Education
Level 1 Access 1            
Level 2 Access 2
Level 3 Access 3 NICAT Entry SG Foundation
Level 4 Intermediate 1 NVQ 1 SVQ 1 NICAT 1 Foundation GSCE D-G SG General
Level 5 intermediate 2 NVQ 2 SVQ 2 NICAT 2 Intermediate GSCE A-C SG Credit
Level 6 Higher NVQ 3 SVQ 3 NICAT 3 Advanced AS Level SCE Higher
Level 7 Advanced Higher NVQ 4 SVQ 4 NICAT 4   A Level   SHE Level 1
Level 8   NICAT 5   SHE Level 2
Level 9 NVQ 5 SVQ 5 NICAT 6 SHE Level 3
Level 10 SHE Level H
Level 11 NICAT 7 SHE Level M
Level 12     NICAT 8 SHE Level D
Last modified: 15-Aug-2003