NOTE: Education levels are defined according to the 1997 International Standard
Classification of Education (ISCED97). Ages represent the typical age at the beginning
of the school year.
Universal enrollment data are not available for India. Numbers highlighted represent
the age at which compulsory enrollment begins through the age at which compulsory
enrollment ends. No meaning should be inferred from width of subdivisions. A striped
box indicates that at the corresponding age or grade level, a student may be in
a school classified in either of the boundary ISCED levels. A dotted box indicates
a further subdivision within an ISCED level.
SOURCE: Nordic Recognition Information Centres. (2006). The System of Education
in India. Retrieved June 26, 2013 from
http://www.nokut.no/Documents/NOKUT/Artikkelbibliotek/
Kunnskapsbasen/Rapporter/UA/2006/The%20System%20of%20Education%20in%20India.pdf;
and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, International
Bureau of Education. (2011). World Data on Education, 2010/11 (7th edition).
Profile on India. Paris: Author. Retrieved June 25, 2013, from
http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/
WDE/2010/pdf-versions/India.pdf.
NOTE: The National Policy on Education defines the objective of early childhood care and education (ECCE) as being the total development of children ages 0–6. The objective of early childhood education (ECE) or preprimary education, which is part of the ECCE, is to prepare children for school.
NOTE: In the case of 8-year programs, the main pattern followed is 5 years of primary and 3 years of upper primary education. In the case of 7-year programs, the main pattern is 4 years of primary and 3 years of upper primary education.
NOTE: In 23 States and Union Territories (S/UTs), secondary education lasts 4 years, divided into 2 years of secondary and 2 years of academic higher secondary education. In 12 S/UTs, secondary education lasts 5 years, divided into 3 years of secondary and 2 years of academic higher secondary education. Vocational secondary education lasts 2 to 3 years.
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