Non-instructional educational institution

Definition

Institution that provides education-related administrative, advisory or professional services to other educational institutions, although they do not enrol students themselves. Examples include national, state, and provincial ministries or departments of education; other bodies that administer education at various levels of government or analogous bodies in the private sector; and organizations that provide such education-related services as vocational or psychological counselling, placement, testing, financial aid to students, curriculum development, educational research, building operations and maintenance services, transportation of students, and student meals and housing.services, transportation of students, and student meals and housing.

Data source

Statistical unit of the Ministry of Education or, alternatively, national statistical office.

Source definition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics