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NAF QEducation

Section · Nomenclature d'Activités Française (2025)

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  1. Q Education

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What Q includes

  • This section Includes education at all levels and for all disciplines. Courses can be given orally or in writing, and may be broadcast on the radio, on television, on internet or by mail order.
  • The teaching activities are those that include an educational program, a calendar, and an evaluation of the knowledge acquired.
  • This section Includes the initial education-formal, at its different levels, provided by the institutions of the general school system, designed for students as an educational journey continuous before their first entry on the labour market, as well as formal education in outside of the school system, of which the content of programmes and qualifications are equivalent this initial education (adult education, literacy programs, etc).
  • Also included are the proposed activities at their respective levels for schools and the military academies, schools, prisons, etc
  • This section includes education mandatory and non-mandatory, as well as education public and private.
  • For each level of education, the specialization courses for people with a physical or mental disability are also included .
  • The groups 85.1 to 85.4 take into account the activities of formal education, according to the international classification of instructional programs (ISCED-P-2011). Therefore, the sharing categories in this section is based on the level of education offered as defined by the levels of ISCED-P-2011*. The activities of educational institutions providing courses at level 0 of the ISCED-P-2011 are classified in class 85.10, on level 1 of the ISCED-P 2011 class 85.20, on isced 2, category 24, and 3, class 34 of the ISCED-P-2011 in the classroom 85.31, level 2, class 25, and 3, class 35 of the ISCED-P-2011-in-class 85.32, level 4 ISCED-P-2011-in-class 85.33 and at levels 5 to 8 of the ISCED-P-2011 in the group 85.4.
  • Educational institutions classified in groups 85.2 to 85.4 are authorized to certify the success of an education program, usually in the form of a document officially recognized by the competent national authorities in the field of education.
  • * NOTE : The correspondence between levels of education and the name of the qualifications in the national language can be found here : https://europa.eu/!mDwYbG
  • This section also draws on the distinction between formal educational programs and non formal established by the european classification of learning activities (CLA). Thus, the non-formal education is primarily focused on the sport, the art, and the recreational activities, and activities in support of education (in groups 85.5-85.6).
  • This section also includes the teaching activities carried out by teachers independent/on their own account/individual/independent (tutors, academics, teachers). These activities are to be classified in the group of 85.5.
  • This section also includes the activities related to the administration, inspection, operation, or support of schools and other educational institutions, as well as the coordination of sports programs.

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