Educational Structure of the Positions in Organization – Information Sources for Monitoring and Analysis ( “…how many persons with higher education work in positions requiring secondary or lower education”)

Periodic surveys and publications on the employment of persons with higher education in positions where higher education is not required are a useful and necessary research focus on the professional realization of higher education graduates and a valuable source of information for future improvement of policies in the field of education, training and employment. The sig­nificance of the findings of these studies is a prerequisite for increasing the attention to the methodical correctness of the data used for the educational structure analysis of the positions in the organizations in the country. The purpose of this article is to analyze basic sources of infor­mation on the required educational level (as part of the methodology for studying the educational structure of the positions in the country) and to highlight their advantages and disadvantages. The popular source of data on the educational structure of positions in organizations in the coun­try – the fifth digit in the eight-digit code of the job in National Classification of Occupations and Positions (NCOP), is characterized by a number of methodological specificities which represent it as incorrect and inappropriate for studying the educational structure of positions that are not defined in a normative act (for example – posi­tions outside the regulated professions). In the first part of this article a methodological char­acteristic of basic information sources about the required level of education for the position is presented and in the second part there are indicated specific proposals for improvement of the methodical approach in defining and moni­toring the educational structure of the positions in the country – recommendations for refinement of texts in the Rules for application of NCOP.