Secondary Technical and Vocational Education

Technical and vocational schools and colleges pave the way for the transition from compulsory education to the world of work.

The flexible and highly practice-oriented Austrian apprenticeship training system is permanently adapted to the needs and requirements of the industry.

Apprentices are to be trained for skilled workers, they have certain rights and duties, enjoy full social security and are entitled to a remuneration: Apprentices are taken seriously and are in turn required to take their job seriously.

The Austrian apprenticeship training is unique throughout the countries of Europe and thanks to their sound training and their good qualifications Austrian skilled workers are highly esteemed all over the world.

Education in part-time vocational schools for apprentices provides for the theoretical background necessary for company-based work while at the same time making up for educational deficits of smaller or highly specialized companies.

Moreover, part-time vocational schools for apprentices are required to provide apprentices with general education in order to pave the way for acquiring further qualifications.

Reforms of the dual system are leading to an increased integration of economic and technological innovations. Moreover, they aim at motivating companies to invest in existing and to create new vacancies for apprentices. And last but not least they also want to foster the young people's willingness to develop new concepts of studying and working.

Secondary technical and vocational schools and colleges enjoy quite some popularity. And even though education and training in these schools and colleges requires quite a lot of hard work on the students' side it seems to be worth the effort for it also provides for a sound education and high-quality vocational training.

By means of not just offering basic vocational training but also more sound and specialized courses, technical and vocational schools and colleges provide for training in various fields and for various occupations.

From skilled work to scientific research - schools and colleges for engineering train for a variety of jobs.

The schools and colleges for occupations in the service industries management have been turned into modern high-quality schools offering future-oriented training.

When our guests feel at home in Austria, when tradition meets with the demands of modern tourists on well-being, it is very likely that graduates of secondary schools for tourism, hotel and catering are pulling the strings.

Apart from imparting sound technical know-how as well as instructing students about the legal framework, secondary schools for occupations in the social services sector also foster the development of the individual student's personality as well as his social skills and his understanding of organizational structures.

Mediating between men and nature - it is a rather demanding job for which students at colleges for agriculture and forestry are trained.

Providing young people working in the agriculture and forestry sector with access to new technologies as well as with management, marketing and sales strategies proves to be of special importance for it opens up new prospects.

Apart from apprenticeship training, colleges for agriculture and forestry are the only institutions which provide for education and training in the field of agriculture and forestry.

Geändert am 13.12.2001