Standard Classification of Educational Fields

Here is a possible list of standard tags describing a course:

• General Programmes
  • Basic programmes
    • pre-primary
    • elementary
    • primary
    • secondary
    • university
  • Literacy and numeracy
  • Personal development
    • behavioural capacities
    • mental skills
    • personal organizational capacities
    • life orientation programmes.
• Teacher training and education science
  • Teacher training
    • pre-school
    • kindergarten
    • elementary school
    • vocational
    • practical
    • non-vocational subject
    • adult education
    • teacher trainers
    • for handicapped children
    • General and specialized teacher training programmes.
  • Education science
    • curriculum development in non-vocational and vocational subjects
    • Educational assessment
    • testing and measurement
    • educational research
    • other education science.
• Humanities and Arts
  • Arts
    • Fine arts
      • drawing
      • painting
      • sculpture
    • Performing arts
      • music
      • drama
      • dance
      • circus
    • Graphic and audio-visual arts
      • photography]
      • cinematography
      • music production
      • radio and TV production
      • printing and publishing;
    • Design
    • Craft skills.
  • Humanities
    • Religion and theology
    • Foreign languages and cultures
      • living or ‘dead’ languages and their literature
      • area studies;
    • Native languages
    • interpretation and translation
    • linguistics
    • comparative literature
    • history
    • archaeology
    • philosophy
    • ethics.
• Social sciences, business and law
  • Social and behavioural science
    • Economics
    • economic history
    • political science
    • sociology
    • demography
    • anthropology (except physical anthropology)
    • ethnology
    • futurology
    • psychology
    • geography (except physical geography)
    • peace and conflict studies
    • human rights
  • Journalism and information
  • Business and administration
  • Law
• Science
  • Life sciences
  • Physical sciences
  • Mathematics and statistics
  • Computing
• Engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • Engineering and engineering trades
  • Manufacturing and processing
  • Architecture and building
• Agriculture
  • Agriculture, forestry and fishery
  • Veterinary
• Health and welfare
  • Health
  • Social services
• Services
  • Personal services
  • Transport services
  • Environmental protection
  • Security services
• Not known or unspecified

Total: 34 tags
If we integrate the sub-sub categories, it would go to about 300 tags. In practice it still should be easy to navigate during a search if we integrate them.

(The tags could be drawn from this UNESCO ISCED 1997 list.)