• 10 years of IFA – International Exchange of Trained Personnel » Dr. Monika Thum-Kraft

   

  On 10 October 2005, IFA celebrated their first 10 years of existence in the display rooms of Bamberger stonemasonry in the fifth district of Vienna. Since its foundation in 1995, IFA has focused on arranging and organising job practices abroad as well as awarding grants to the gifted. It has specialized on people without university education.

   

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• Careers in context: new challenges and tasks for education and career advice » Ehemalige Mitarbeiterin

  The yearly congress of the International Association for Schooling and Profession Advice (IASBB) was held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2005. About 500 career advisors, opinion leaders, and scientists from all continents took part. They presented and discussed the newest developments and challenges in the field of schooling and job advice.

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• New publication: Transition to the World of Work » Ehemalige Mitarbeiterin

   

  The newly published editorial “Transition to the World of Work” came out as part of the Comenius 3 network “School and Business – Making Transition Work”. The increasing importance and complexity of designing the transition zone between school and job served as the background to the project presented. Its aim was to define key questions and core elements of developments along interfaces and transition zones between school and job by involving 14 nations, ten of them being European.

   

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• How does education and career advice work in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, And in Austria? » Dr. Monika Thum-Kraft

   

  Education and career advice in our neighbouring countries Slovakia and the Czech Republic – an overview in comparison with Austria

   

   

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Forschung

• Education and further training as well as its effects on the labour market » Dr. Arthur Schneeberger

   

  Austrian educational policy has for decades placed great emphasis on offering qualified first education for practically all youths. The offers of pre-work education (PTS) and first education on-the-job are manifold and efficient. Thus, results in a European context are rather pleasing: the percentage of school quitters are below EU average, as well as the percentage of unemployed youths (5.6 compared to 8.3 percent), while the education and training ratio, being 86 percent, is clearly above EU average (76.7 percent).

   

  Yet, the future will make widely altered demands on education and further training. These will mainly be linked to a demand of higher basic qualification in compulsory education and regarding social competence of the information society, the expected aging of the workforce and continuing immigration.  Solid basic education of the youth, as well as wide participation in general and job-related adult training will become key variables of competitiveness in the age of information – be it for the individual, the companies, or the economies.

   

   

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Gastautoren

• Women in economy take part in the EU project C.H.A.S.E: tearing down traditional barriers through information, self-confidence and female role models » Gastautor

   

   

  Nearly two thirds of all Austrian girls find themselves doing one of the five ‘classic’ apprenticeships: clerk, hairdresser, trained retail saleswoman, restaurant saleswoman, and cook. 65 percent of all unemployed women come from merely four professions: office jobs, tourist industry, retailing, and cleaning. All this is the case even though studies have shown that young girls are interested in the same wide range of jobs as boys, and that they also favour technical professions. Job decisions are, however, often very traditional.

   

   

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• University graduates founding and taking over a company » Gastautor

  New businesses create jobs not only in the branch they operate in, but also in preliminary areas. Opening one business in Austria results in 324,000 Euros of added value p.a. (yearly value of 2003). Here, university graduates that open or take over businesses play an important role.

   

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• Leadership Academy » Gastautor

  Educational policy is talked about a lot in Austria these days. Initiatives for reform started by the government are hooked up with results and findings of national and international comparative studies. The findings of the Future Commission are publicly discussed and the media shows great interest. One can easily see the will to change and renew; politics indicates the will to open up. This means there are chances for development at hand. Peter Senge (1990), founder of the Learning Organisation would speak of a “Dance of Change”.

   

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• KNEWLEDGE Prize was awarded in the headquarters of the Federation of Austrian Industry » Gastautor

   

   

  On Wednesday, 16 November 2005, the KNEWLEDGE Prize was awarded for the 5^th time. The State Prize “for the promotion of lifelong learning within professional contexts”, awarded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, is given to companies and NGOs that strongly support the continuous education and training as well as the competence development of their employees. For the first time the awards show took place in the headquarters of the Federation of Austrian Industry.

   

   

   

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Statistik/Grafik

• The 50 most common apprenticeship professions » Sabine Nowak
  In its very nature, apprenticeship training in companies and complementary vocational school represents a qualification that specialises on the job that trains for full work capability as a skilled worker. All in all, this orientation towards immediate work capability results in some 260 apprenticeship professions. Corresponding to the economic demand, numbers of people in these professions differ –quite logically- a lot. At the end of 2004, 84 percent of all apprentices were in the 50 most popular apprenticeships and apprenticeship combinations.

   

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