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“No educational path in Austria ends in a blind alley, ” summarises the Federal Minister for Education.
Vocational education and training (VET) is very popular among young people with nearly 80% of pupils going into this field when they leave compulsory schooling. Its particularity is to combine mainstream education, vocational training and practical training for 14 to 19 year-olds.
The educational pathways are varied and flexible, with horizontal mobility always an option towards tertiary education and even universities.
The Austrian education system – 2013
Glossary
Establishments
- Kindergarten: infant school
- Volksschule/ Grundschule: primary school
- Hauptschule: secondary school /1st cycle, preparation for working life
- Allgemein bildende höhere Schule / Unterstufe: mainstream secondary school education/1st cycle
- Neue Mittelschule: new middle school (recently created)
- Polytechnische Schule: preparatory classes (1 year) for vocational training/through apprenticeships
- Berufsschule : vocational teaching establishment, training through apprenticeships
- Allgemein bildende höhere Schule/ Oberstufe: mainstream secondary school education /2nd cycle
- Berufsbildende höhere Schule: long-course vocational education school (5 years), leading to university
- Berufsbildende mittlere Schule: vocational middle school training pupils in the fields of business, industry, trades, tourism, agriculture and forestry
- Fachhochschule: university of applied sciences
- Kolleg: higher vocational college training students in construction, catering, urban restoration, infant school education, tourism and the leisure industry etc.
- Akademie: further education college offering technical medical training in physiotherapy, ergotherapy, orthoptics and medical analyses etc.
- Pädagogische Hochschule teacher training college
Diplomas
- Abschlussprüfung: final examination obtained at the end of a Berufsbildende Mittlere Schule
- Berufsreifeprüfung : examination obtained at the end of the secondary technical and vocational training for a minimum period of 3 years in a Berufsbildende Mittlere Schule or a Berufsschule. It does not qualify for a profession, but allows access to higher education.
- Lehrabschlussprüfung: examination organised by apprenticeship centres on completing vocational training
- Reifeprüfung: final examination on completing mainstream secondary education
- Diplomprüfung: examinations on completing post-secondary and higher education
