Projekte: Hochschulforschung
 

Adaptation-Anticipation of Higher, Non-University Vocational Education and Training Institutions to Industrial Change: Reflections on and Case Studies of the Austrian Situation

This European study focuses on the mechanisms of higher, non-university vocational education and training institutions to anticipate future developments and to adapt to industrial change. In the Austrian national report we therefore analyzed the newly introduced Fachhochschul sector. In the first chapter the educational system, its history and its responsiveness to the labor market is discussed in general before we focus on higher vocational education and its mechanisms of adaptation/anticipation more in detail.

Beneath the description of the national context the exploration of the strategies how to anticipate future economic developments and how to adapt to industrial change built our main research interest. We therefore carried out case studies and analyzed the mechanisms and instruments of two Fachhochschul programs enabling them to offer a future oriented curriculum. The instruments found in practice even reach beyond the legal requirements and the participating Fachhochschul programs can serve as examples of best practice not only in a national but also in a European context.
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