Education / Qualification
Represent a person's source-qualified learning path, assessed outcomes, qualification awards, credentials and recognition decisions independent of storage and interface format.
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Framework, programme and offering Identifies the education system, programme and qualification framework in which learning occurs.
Education system and framework
Jurisdictional systems, classifications and qualification levels.
Education system, jurisdiction and authority
Governing education system, competent authority, jurisdiction, sector, validity and source.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for education system, jurisdiction and authority? authority
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes education system, jurisdiction and authority, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may education system, jurisdiction and authority be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
ISCED field and level, national framework and EQF mapping
Pinned classification and framework references, source and target versions, mapping authority, scope and non-equivalence caveats.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for isced field and level, national framework and eqf mapping? classification
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes isced field and level, national framework and eqf mapping, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may isced field and level, national framework and eqf mapping be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Programme and offering definition
The governed learning opportunity and rules available to a cohort or learner.
Programme identity, title, provider, awarding body and edition
Authoritative programme identifier, language titles, provider, competent awarding body, delivery profile, edition and effective interval.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for programme identity, title, provider, awarding body and edition? identity
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes programme identity, title, provider, awarding body and edition, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may programme identity, title, provider, awarding body and edition be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Entry, curriculum, credit, progression, completion and exit rules
Versioned prerequisites, required and elective components, workload or credit system, progression, completion, expiry and available exits.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for entry, curriculum, credit, progression, completion and exit rules? requirement
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes entry, curriculum, credit, progression, completion and exit rules, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may entry, curriculum, credit, progression, completion and exit rules be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Learner participation and path Represents the learner's governed relationship to programmes and components.
Admission and enrolment
Learner-programme identity, decisions, status and conditions.
Application, admission decision, conditions and appeal
External application, deciding authority, criteria version, decision, conditions, reason, effective time and review or appeal state.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for application, admission decision, conditions and appeal? decision
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes application, admission decision, conditions and appeal, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may application, admission decision, conditions and appeal be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Learner-programme binding, enrolment status, load and period
Privacy-preserving learner and programme references, enrolment identifier, status, study mode, load, cohort and valid interval.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for learner-programme binding, enrolment status, load and period? relationship
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes learner-programme binding, enrolment status, load and period, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may learner-programme binding, enrolment status, load and period be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Learning path and prior learning
Planned and completed components plus recognized transfer or prior learning.
Planned component, participation, attendance and completion
Course or module references, requirement role, sequence, participation evidence and source-qualified completion state.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for planned component, participation, attendance and completion? process
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes planned component, participation, attendance and completion, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may planned component, participation, attendance and completion be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Transfer credit, prior learning, exemption and substitution
Source achievement, recognition method, deciding authority, mapped requirement, credit, limitations, expiry and reversal history.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for transfer credit, prior learning, exemption and substitution? decision
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes transfer credit, prior learning, exemption and substitution, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may transfer credit, prior learning, exemption and substitution be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Learning outcomes, assessment and validation Connects intended and demonstrated learning to source evidence and competent decisions.
Outcomes, competencies and achievement
Expected outcomes, external alignments and learner achievement levels.
Learning outcome, knowledge, skill, responsibility and context
Versioned outcome definition, type, expected complexity, performance context, evidence requirement and framework source.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for learning outcome, knowledge, skill, responsibility and context? definition
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes learning outcome, knowledge, skill, responsibility and context, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may learning outcome, knowledge, skill, responsibility and context be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Competency or standard alignment, achievement level and evidence
External competency references, mapping type, expected and demonstrated proficiency, evaluator, evidence and confidence.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for competency or standard alignment, achievement level and evidence? relationship
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes competency or standard alignment, achievement level and evidence, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may competency or standard alignment, achievement level and evidence be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Assessment, result and validation
External assessment evidence and the decision that it satisfies education rules.
Assessment method, instrument, attempt, evidence and integrity
Assessment reference, method, attempt identity, conditions, assessor, evidence, accommodations, integrity and review status.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for assessment method, instrument, attempt, evidence and integrity? evidence
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes assessment method, instrument, attempt, evidence and integrity, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may assessment method, instrument, attempt, evidence and integrity be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Score, grade, scale, result status, moderation and appeal
Original score or grade, scale authority and version, pass decision, finality, moderation, correction, appeal and knowledge time.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for score, grade, scale, result status, moderation and appeal? validation
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes score, grade, scale, result status, moderation and appeal, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may score, grade, scale, result status, moderation and appeal be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Qualification definition and personal award Separates a reusable qualification from the authoritative decision that one learner earned it.
Qualification definition
The reusable governed outcome and its requirements, rights and framework references.
Qualification identity, title, type, owner and version
Authoritative qualification identifier, language titles, type, competent owner or awarding body, jurisdiction, version and status.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for qualification identity, title, type, owner and version? identity
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes qualification identity, title, type, owner and version, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may qualification identity, title, type, owner and version be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Requirements, volume, outcomes, level, access rights and limitations
Completion requirements, credit or workload, learning outcomes, framework level and stated progression or occupational access with caveats.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for requirements, volume, outcomes, level, access rights and limitations? requirement
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes requirements, volume, outcomes, level, access rights and limitations, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may requirements, volume, outcomes, level, access rights and limitations be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Award decision and conferral
The person-specific validation and effective award state.
Award eligibility, validation decision, authority and evidence
Learner, qualification and programme references, rule version, completion evidence, decision maker, approval, exceptions and appeal.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for award eligibility, validation decision, authority and evidence? decision
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes award eligibility, validation decision, authority and evidence, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may award eligibility, validation decision, authority and evidence be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Conferral date, effective state, honours, conditions and expiry
Award identifier, conferral and effective times, distinction or honours, conditions, expiry if meaningful, successor and withdrawal state.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for conferral date, effective state, honours, conditions and expiry? lifecycle
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes conferral date, effective state, honours, conditions and expiry, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may conferral date, effective state, honours, conditions and expiry be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Credential issuance, proof and status Represents credentials as portable evidence of education claims with their own lifecycle.
Credential identity, claims and proof
Credential subject, issuer, achievement claims, evidence and proof references.
Credential identifier, subject, issuer, schema and claims
Stable credential identity, privacy-preserving subject binding, issuer and authority, schema, exact award or achievement claims and terms of use.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for credential identifier, subject, issuer, schema and claims? identity
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes credential identifier, subject, issuer, schema and claims, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may credential identifier, subject, issuer, schema and claims be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Criteria, evidence, proof, signature and verification-method reference
Criteria and evidence links, proof type, signature or verification reference, digest, key status reference and non-claims.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for criteria, evidence, proof, signature and verification-method reference? evidence
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes criteria, evidence, proof, signature and verification-method reference, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may criteria, evidence, proof, signature and verification-method reference be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Issuance, correction, reissue and revocation
Credential availability, successors and independently checkable status.
Issuance, delivery, holder control, validity and presentation
Issue and availability times, recipient channel, holder binding, validity interval, presentation purpose and selective-disclosure limits.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for issuance, delivery, holder control, validity and presentation? lifecycle
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes issuance, delivery, holder control, validity and presentation, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may issuance, delivery, holder control, validity and presentation be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Correction, reissue, suspension, revocation, status and tombstone
Reason and authority, effective time, predecessor or successor, status service, verification time, privacy protection and durable tombstone.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for correction, reissue, suspension, revocation, status and tombstone? state
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes correction, reissue, suspension, revocation, status and tombstone, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may correction, reissue, suspension, revocation, status and tombstone be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Learner record, recognition and portability Assembles achievements and records how other authorities evaluate or receive them.
Transcript, credit and progress
Ordered achievement sets and original plus mapped measures of progress.
Transcript component, achievement set, order and source
Transcript identity and version, component credentials, source registrars, academic periods, ordering, annotations, seals and correction lineage.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for transcript component, achievement set, order and source? relationship
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes transcript component, achievement set, order and source, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may transcript component, achievement set, order and source be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Credit, workload, grade, progress, completion and incomplete state
Original credit system, attempted and earned values, workload, cumulative measures, incomplete or withdrawn status and mapped values with loss.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for credit, workload, grade, progress, completion and incomplete state? measurement
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes credit, workload, grade, progress, completion and incomplete state, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may credit, workload, grade, progress, completion and incomplete state be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Comparability, recognition and downstream use
Attributable decisions that interpret a foreign or external qualification for one purpose.
Equivalence, comparability, level map, scope and non-equivalence
Source and target qualifications or levels, mapping authority, purpose, evidence, result, limitations, confidence and expiry.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for equivalence, comparability, level map, scope and non-equivalence? interoperability
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes equivalence, comparability, level map, scope and non-equivalence, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may equivalence, comparability, level map, scope and non-equivalence be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Recognition decision, authority, purpose, jurisdiction and appeal
Recognizing body, application, purpose such as admission or employment, jurisdiction, decision, conditions, reason and appeal history.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for recognition decision, authority, purpose, jurisdiction and appeal? decision
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes recognition decision, authority, purpose, jurisdiction and appeal, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may recognition decision, authority, purpose, jurisdiction and appeal be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Learner control and portable disclosure
Purpose-bound sharing, sealed records and verification history.
Learner-controlled disclosure, consent, recipient, purpose and seal
Disclosure authority, data minimization, selected claims, sealed or protected records, audience, expiry and revocation effect.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for learner-controlled disclosure, consent, recipient, purpose and seal? privacy
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes learner-controlled disclosure, consent, recipient, purpose and seal, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may learner-controlled disclosure, consent, recipient, purpose and seal be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Presentation, verification, status check and reliance history
Presented credential set, verifier, purpose, checks performed, result, timestamp, disclosed fields and downstream reliance reference.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for presentation, verification, status check and reliance history? provenance
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes presentation, verification, status check and reliance history, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may presentation, verification, status check and reliance history be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Governance, interoperability and agent operations Controls authority, provenance, mappings and safe automated change.
Stewardship, provenance and quality
Registrar and awarding authority plus source lineage and data quality.
Registrar, awarding body, issuer, owner and steward authority
External party references, mandate, role scope, jurisdiction, validity and accountable correction and escalation routes.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for registrar, awarding body, issuer, owner and steward authority? authority
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes registrar, awarding body, issuer, owner and steward authority, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may registrar, awarding body, issuer, owner and steward authority be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Source lineage, observation, ingestion, confidence and quality
Source system, author, derivation, transformations, event and knowledge times, completeness, conflict and quality checks.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for source lineage, observation, ingestion, confidence and quality? quality
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes source lineage, observation, ingestion, confidence and quality, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may source lineage, observation, ingestion, confidence and quality be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Standards and loss-aware mappings
Versioned classifier, framework, schema and credential projections.
ISCED, EQF, national framework, ESCO and CTDL projection
Pinned source and target identifiers and versions, mapping authority, transformed or omitted fields, licence and round-trip limits.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for isced, eqf, national framework, esco and ctdl projection? interoperability
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes isced, eqf, national framework, esco and ctdl projection, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may isced, eqf, national framework, esco and ctdl projection be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
CLR, Open Badges and Verifiable Credential projection
Profile versions, required claims, achievement and evidence mapping, proof references, selective disclosure and conformance status.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for clr, open badges and verifiable credential projection? interoperability
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes clr, open badges and verifiable credential projection, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may clr, open badges and verifiable credential projection be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Safe agent control and validation
Authorized operations, invariants, concurrency and recovery.
Agent operation authority, purpose, preconditions and confirmation
Classifies register, enrol, assess, award, issue, recognize, disclose, correct and revoke actions as autonomous, propose, confirm or forbidden.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for agent operation authority, purpose, preconditions and confirmation? security
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes agent operation authority, purpose, preconditions and confirmation, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may agent operation authority, purpose, preconditions and confirmation be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Pre-write and post-write validation, conflict, concurrency and recovery
Identity, authority, rule, framework, scale, credit, evidence, time, status, privacy, stale-head and rollback checks with immutable audit evidence.
- What exact values, references, codes, scales, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for pre-write and post-write validation, conflict, concurrency and recovery? validation
- Which learner, institution, registrar, assessor, awarding or recognizing authority and evidence establishes pre-write and post-write validation, conflict, concurrency and recovery, at what event and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
- How may pre-write and post-write validation, conflict, concurrency and recovery be validated, appealed, corrected, superseded, revoked, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring lifecycle? validation
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- entity
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.PER.EDU
- Domain
- SOC.PER.EDU
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- educationqualificationsoc.per.edu
- Also called
- H4
What it is Filled
Owns learner-programme bindings, progress, outcome and result references, personal awards, credential lifecycle links, transcripts, comparability and recognition assertions, disclosure and provenance. External systems own people, institutions, programmes, courses, teaching, assessments, skills, occupations, licences, payments, immigration, consent and cryptographic proof infrastructure.
In scope
- Education systems, programme and qualification references, learner admission, enrolment, pathway, credit and prior learning
- Learning outcomes, assessment evidence, grades, validation, qualification award, conferral and credential lifecycle
- Transcripts, portability, comparability, recognition, disclosure, provenance, standards mappings and safe agent operations
Out of scope
- Person and institution identity, teaching content and delivery, assessment execution, skills and occupation taxonomy masters
- Professional licensure, immigration or admission decisions, payment, funding and cryptographic implementation
- Universal grade, credit, framework, recognition, privacy, retention or minor-learner rules
Why it exists Filled
Represent a person's source-qualified learning path, assessed outcomes, qualification awards, credentials and recognition decisions independent of storage and interface format.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Links a learner to programmes, results and awards, not the programme or qualification definitions.
- Personal awards and credentials are verifiable records, distinct from self-declared skills.
- Recognition and comparability assertions are recorded with their issuer.
- Professional licences are referenced, not owned.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Issue, alter or revoke awards.
- Make admission or hiring decisions from records alone.
- Disclose results without consent.
- Treat an unverified credential as verified.
- Infer ability from protected characteristics.
Only with a human decision
- Recognition decisions.
- Academic misconduct findings.
- Corrections of awarded results.
May
- Verify credentials through the issuer or a verification service.
- Help learners collect and share their records.
- Explain how a qualification compares within published frameworks.
Moral aspects Filled
- Credentials open or close access to jobs and further study.
- Records of minors need extra protection.
- Credential fraud harms honest learners and the public.
Who is affected
- Learners and graduates
- Education institutions and awarding bodies
- Employers and recognition authorities
Owners Filled
Steward
Dimension identity, owner, learner-record steward, registrar, awarding authority and namespace
Roles
- Learner or lawful representative
- Exercise lawful access, portability, correction and disclosure choices and preserve contested claims.
- Education provider or registrar
- Master programme participation, component results, transcript and correction records.
- Assessor or validation body
- Assess evidence, moderate results and decide outcome achievement within authority.
- Awarding body
- Own qualification rules and confer, correct or withdraw personal awards.
- Credential issuer
- Issue accurate evidence, maintain status and protect subject binding and verification privacy.
- Recognizing authority
- Make purpose and jurisdiction-specific comparability or recognition decisions with appeal.
- Privacy and records steward
- Apply learner access, sealed-record, minimum disclosure, retention and audit rules.
- Independent auditor
- Review authority, evidence, mappings, awards, status and disclosure without changing source truth.
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- Person, Institution, Programme, Course, Learning Activity, Assessment, Competency, Occupation, Licence, Consent and Evidence models - Connect education context to external identity, content, evaluation, taxonomy, authorization and evidence masters.
aligned
- UNESCO ISCED - Classify programmes and related qualifications by pinned level and field releases with national mappings.
- EQF, national qualification frameworks and ESCO - Record attributable level comparison and qualification register references without asserting automatic equivalence.
- Credential Transparency Description Language - Describe qualification, programme, assessment, organization, conditions and outcome relationships in a registry projection.
- Comprehensive Learner Record and Open Badges - Project learner-controlled achievement, competency, course and evidence records.
- Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0 and PROV-O - Represent portable issuer claims and status plus attributable derivation, revision and recognition provenance.
neighbor
- Programme, Course and Learning Activity - Reusable offerings and teaching execution keep their own masters; this model stores learner bindings, requirements and result links.
- Assessment - Assessment owns instruments, attempts and evaluation execution; the learner record stores evidence references, original result and competent validation effect.
- Qualification definition, Award and Credential - The qualification is reusable, the award is a competent person-specific decision, and the credential is issuer-controlled evidence with an independent status lifecycle.
- Skill, Competency and Occupation - External taxonomies own concept meaning; education assertions store versioned alignments and demonstrated levels without remastering them.
- Professional Licence and Authorization - A qualification can be evidence for a downstream licence or admission decision but never grants that authorization automatically.
- Identity, Consent and Proof Infrastructure - Subject identity, access decisions and cryptographic execution remain external; this model records bindings, purpose and evidence.
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Authoritative master-system identifier for the programme, award, credential or recognition record, qualified by issuer.
- Governed globally resolvable IRI with explicit registrar or awarding-body binding.
- Adopting-Dimension UUID or ULID when no authoritative external identifier exists.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- A learner record names a person, an institution, a programme, results and awards with dates and issuers.
- It is confused with a CV entry, a course enrolment and a professional licence.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Register programme and qualification: Create or bind authoritative reusable definitions with framework and version context.
- Record admission and enrolment: Append a decision and learner-programme binding with conditions, status and interval.
- Record component completion: Append participation, transfer, exemption or completion evidence for a programme component.
- Bind assessed learning outcomes: Connect external assessment results to versioned outcomes and competency references.
- Validate award eligibility: Evaluate completion evidence against a pinned qualification rule set and record exceptions.
- Confer qualification: Append the competent awarding decision, personal award identity and effective state.
- Issue education credential: Create or bind a credential that evidences a specific award or achievement.
- Correct, reissue, suspend or revoke: Append a credential or award lifecycle change with reason, authority and successor.
- Assemble learner record: Build a versioned transcript or CLR from source-qualified achievements and progress.
- Record recognition decision: Append a purpose-specific comparability or recognition decision by a competent body.
- Verify credential status: Record subject binding, issuer, proof and status checks at a stated time and purpose.
- Project interoperable record: Transform a validated record to ISCED, EQF, CTDL, CLR, Open Badges or VC with declared loss.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Credential fraud.
- Disclosure of grades or special needs data.
- Wrong recognition decisions.
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0.
- 1EdTech Open Badges 3.0 and CLR 2.0.
- European Learning Model and Europass digital credentials.
- UNESCO ISCED 2011.
Context of use required Filled
- The EQF and ESCO supply European profiles and do not create universal levels, recognition or rights.
- ISCED is a statistical classification and does not itself accredit a programme or confer a qualification.
- CLR, Open Badges and Verifiable Credentials are exchange formats and do not determine educational quality, award authority or legal recognition.
Sources Filled
- International Standard Classification of Education, ISCED - UNESCO Institute for Statistics
- Council Recommendation on the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning - European Union
- European Qualifications Framework - European Commission, Europass
- ESCO Qualifications - European Commission
- Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0 - World Wide Web Consortium
- Comprehensive Learner Record Standard - 1EdTech Consortium
- Open Badges - 1EdTech Consortium
- Credential Transparency Description Language Handbook - Credential Engine
- PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
- Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps - Internet Engineering Task Force
Open questions
- Approve exact sibling model identities and field ownership for programmes, courses, teaching activities, assessments, skills, occupations, licences and consent.
- Develop national and sector profiles for credit, workload, grading, qualification frameworks, award powers, recognition, minors, sealed records and retention.
- Create deterministic fixtures for transfer credit, prior learning, incomplete study, grade correction, award appeal, credential reissue, revocation, name change and selective disclosure.
- Validate certified ISCED, framework, ESCO, CTDL, CLR, Open Badges and VC projections with licence, disclosure, mapping-loss and round-trip tests.
- No independent Claude or Grok result was available; later external and education-sector review is required before canonical promotion.
- National programme, credit, grade, framework, award, recognition, minor-learner, sealed-record, retention and appeal profiles require specialist review.
- Teaching content and events, assessment execution, skills and occupation taxonomies, professional licences, payments, immigration and proof infrastructure remain external.
- The frozen relation ledger contains no approved WM-PER-008 rows; composition targets remain draft.
- Certified ISCED, EQF, ESCO, CTDL, CLR, Open Badges and VC crosswalks, conformance tests and licence review remain future work.
Machine files
Provenance
world-models research · reviewable-draft
Built from: models/wm-per-008-education-qualification/spec.yaml, ver-cy/world-models/card-supplements/wm-per-008-education-qualification.json