ibw-news 2/2005
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Entwicklung
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The Austrian Job World Championship team make their final preparations » Ing. Stefan Praschl
Helsinki /Finland hosts this year’s International Job World Championship – the 38th of its kind- between 19 May and 2 June 2005.
More than 200 Austrians applied for these World Skills, and they took part in preliminary rounds. In less than two months, 26 young professionals will compete for gold, sliver, and bronze in 24 different professional fields in Scandinavia. Upper Austria sends seven participants; four come from Tyrol; and the provinces Lower Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Vorarlberg and Carinthia are represented by three participants each – with the hairdresser from Carinthia starting for Vienna, due to her employer being there.
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Media folder Career Advice » Mag. Josef Wallner
On behalf of the Austrian Economic Chamber, the ibw has compiled the contents of the new media folder „Career Advice“.
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New apprenticeship finals in mercantile and administrative professions » Mag. Josef Wallner
The reorganisation of the commercial and administrative professions has also brought about new examination procedures.
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Promoting the AMS qualification barometer » Ehemalige Mitarbeiterin
The AMS (Labour Market Service) qualification barometer is a tool to outline the development of both the qualifications and professions of the Austrian labour market. Developed at the beginning of 2002 by the ibw and 3s business consulting Ltd. , it has been online since March 2003, and therefore it is available to the public. So as to make the system even more popular with teachers as regards student counselling, as well as education and career advice, members of the ibw will be holding seminars at pedagogic institutions in all provinces this summer term and also in the upcoming winter term. -
Supporting and fostering the gifted » Roswitha Hinterstein
A support programme by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Austrian Economic Chambers to foster talented and committed apprentices and apprenticeship leavers (under the age of 35) at further training courses.
· The support programme of 2005 has already started (more …)
· Retrospect on the gifted support programme 2004 (more …)
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The MEVOC self-evaluation tool as a new means of competence check-up for education and career advisors » Ehemalige Mitarbeiterin
The MEVOC project (2003-2006), which was coordinated by the ibw, aims at establishing a quality assurance programme for education and career advice (www.mevoc.net), in cooperation with 13 international partner organizations that engage in the educational matters. The project’s products contain international quality standards for education and career advisors, the development of which has already been completed by the international team of experts. Moreover, they contain a self-evaluation tool that makes it possible for advisors to assess the quality of their consultations, as well as their formally and informally gained competence; lastly, there will be a data base that is interactively hooked up with self-evaluation tool which will list further training opportunities for the respective quality standards.
Forschung
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Further training for teachers in an international comparison » Mag. Kurt Schmid
Teachers find themselves at the centre of educational political debates. This has been the case not only since the discussion about influencing factors and ways to improve student performance was sparked by the most recent PISA study. All national and international studies again and again point out the important role of further training for teachers with a view to keeping up and increasing their level of professionalism. There is, however, the fact that in most countries, further training for teachers is an unsystematic appendix to their first university education. Many countries have realised this, and so a number of countries have already tried to improve the present situation. The international discussion as well as the trends that can be observed allow for conclusions to be drawn regarding the possible future development of the Austrian programme for further teacher training.
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The Europass » Gastautor
Presenting one’s skills, abilities and knowledge in a professional manner, is a prerequisite that is essential if one wants to succeed on the European labour market. EUROPASS was created in order to make these competences visible.
Gastautoren
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Empirical evaluation study of EU job training programmes in Austria » Gastautor
The European Union and its institutions spend considerable sums on the development of a European dimension of apprenticeship training. But what about the acceptance of EU training programmes in Austria’s large companies? As part of the present study, the 100 top companies were surveyed. The results were often disappointing: half of the people surveyed do not know the EU programmes (LEONARDO et al.). -
Educational clusters auccess » Gastautor
The inititative started by Christoph Leitl, president of the Austrian Economic Chamber, and Federal Minister of Education, Elisabeth Gehrer, to set up educational clusters and cooperation networks at Austrian schools and economic sites, proves of value.
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Mobility of Apprentices » Gastautor
Today’s Europe makes new demands on people in jobs. The mobility of skilled personnel, high competence in language matters and one’s professional field, as well as key qualifications such as teamwork and intercultural competence are taken for granted these days. These qualifications are new challenges for our youth. Trainee exchange programmes in the EU add to a certain understanding of the European Idea, as well as the mobility of skilled personnel. One of these is the pilot project “Pro Europass – Apprentices across the Border”.
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From dialogue to reformation » Gastautor
PISA; reformation dialogue; teacher training; commission for the future – the public discussion about educational matters has gained momentum, and reports, concepts and recommendations for reformation measures have been produced.PISA obviously presses us to take action. However, PISA is not everything; reducing the debate to discussing the PISA results does not hit the target - nor does putting everything down to the question of common schooling versus a differentiated school system.
It is worthwhile, however, to deal with the processes and the criteria that govern educational processes and influence its quality. Even though we cannot take over concepts and models from the countries that excelled in the PISA study without altering them, to learn from the best is a way to success that also holds true for school matters.
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Development of competences in business administration and transferring it as central factors for success in handing over small and medium-sized companies » Gastautor
Planning to hand over one’s company and successfully doing so, is gaining importance as regards small and medium-sized businesses – especially because more than 50,000 Austrian companies will be handed over to successors by the year 2013. In the face of fixed structures and mostly clear initial situations, successors find themselves in an equally challenging and complex situation as if they founded their own businesses. The process of handing over the company is, however, often quite delicate, due to a lack of economic attractiveness of the business, a shortage in capital, a lack of motivation of both the owner and the successor, or competence deficits of the potential successors. -
Handbook vocational training research » Gastautor
The “handbook vocational training“ is the first of its kind that features up-to-date knowledge for all dimensions of vocational training; not only for research, but also for scientific transfer to practical vocational training and its political agenda.
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