Definition: Theoretical entrance age

Category: Education

The age at which pupils or students would enter a given programme or level of education assuming they had started at the official entrance age for the lowest level of education, had studied full-time throughout and had progressed through the system without repeating a grade or skipping a grade. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/uis_data-collection-instruction-manual-questionnaires-statistics-education-2013-en.pdf