Educational level

Definition: Levels of HE that the resource is likely to be relevant to.(FAILTE)
Obligation: Compulsory
Type of element: Restricted vocabulary

Entry guidelines

When selecting a term to describe a resource's educational level, consider the amount of prior knowledge required by the learner to use the resource effectively: the vocabulary is intended to reflect this.

The terms have been chosen to map roughly onto different year levels of the English HE system in the following way:

Foundation

Material which may be expected to be a pre-requisite to degree-level study. Typically covered in A level or at FE college. May be covered at the start of a Scottish degree.

Introductory

Material suitable for an initial study of the topic, probably in the first or second year of study.

Intermediate

Material which assumes some "university level" knowledge prerequisite, suitable for 2nd/3rd year of a three-year degree.

Advanced

Material which would not necessarily be covered in a general graduate degree: may be covered in a specialist degree, a final- year option or a taught post-graduate degree.

General

Any or all of the above.

Unknown

where none of the terms above can be applied, for whatever reason.