Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

Revision of Classification of Fields of Education to Enhance the Availability of Educational Statistics

Universities are continuously reforming their departments according to the current trend of convergence in the academic area and the change in the business and industrial world. The validity of the classification information is becoming more and more important as the classification information of the departments are used for the selection and assessment of various university support programs, university structural adjustment, manpower supply prospect etc. Such being the case, the purpose of this research is the improvement of the academic department classification system for the effective management of the university statistic information.

For this cause, we examined the domestic and foreign academic department classification system and the relevant classification system. Also we examined the validity of the academic department classification of the current basic educational statistics, and based on that, we set-up principles and standards of the academic department classification reform. Additionally we proposed an academic department classification improvement scheme of all seven series according to the principles and standards of the academic department classification reform that we set-up. Lastly we suggested the task that has to follow this research.