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Adult education
Schools for part-time students and tertiary education
Adults who have already embarked upon careers or have concluded their vocational training have the possibility of obtaining relevant educational qualifications as part-time students taking evening classes. Part-time students can choose between academic secondary schools and medium- and higher-level secondary technical and vocational colleges, consolidation courses, specialised post matriculation courses and post-secondary colleges. Universities and technical universities also offer fur-ther education courses: the latter also offer technical university courses for parttime students.
Adult education
Academic and vocational courses and programmes are offered by institutes of adult education sponsored by the Ministry of Education, such as colleges of further education, vocational colleges, institutes for economic development, denominational institutions and a number of other regional non-profit institutions for adult education.
One of the main purposes of adult education is to allow students to gain qualifications not obtained earlier by taking adult classes in the form of “second-chance education”. Institutions offering adult education give interested students the oppor-tunity of attending courses in preparation for the matriculation examination, the school-leaving certificate, the university entrance examination or the vocational matriculation examination (in some instances examinations may be taken in stages).
Further information is also available on the Internet at: www.erwachsenenbildung.at
Geändert am 26.02.2009
