Hi Andy
I thought that we had agreed to use the Scottish Credit and Qualifications
Framework levels within the RDN and LTSN, which has the 12 levels described
in UKEL, and which is the only scheme which gives enough scope to
incorporate medical, dental and veterinary medicine degrees, and which has
been successfully mapped to the other UK qualifications frameworks.
We at LTSN-01 would like to see the twelve levels retained, but perhaps
expressed more clearly - maybe our Scottish colleagues have some advice on
how we might do this?
All the best
Suzanne
On 23/7/03 9:15 pm, "Andy Powell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The draft RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile makes use of the UK Educational
> Levels described at
>
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/ukel/
>
> You'll notice that the value for each level is a string of the form
>
> levelN
>
> where 'N' is '1'-'12'.
>
> I'm now wondering if this is a mistake... if so, now would be a good time
> to change it because, I assume, there hasn't been much real usage of this
> stuff yet. The problem is that where metadata records using these values
> are 'dumbed-down' to something simple like unqualified DC, the metadata
> record will only contain something like
>
> <dcterms:educationLevel>level1</dcterms:educationLevel>
>
> and therefore the end-user is likely to get presented with something like
>
> Education Level: level1
>
> which doesn't give him or her much context to go on.
>
> I now think it would be better for the string values to take a form like
>
> UKEducationLevelN
>
> or
>
> UK Education Level N
>
> which makes it more obvious to the end user what they are getting even if
> they only see the value string. The only real cost I can see is a few
> more bytes being carried in the instance metadata.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Andy
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