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All you need to know about education in Austria

A selection of websites from our database is provided below concerning the following topics:

• Springe zu: Overviews of the education system in Austria
• Springe zu: Ministries responsible for education and science in Austria
• Springe zu: Educational reports on and education statistics for Austria

 You will find further websites and literature on Austria here:

1. Websites on Austria
2. Literature on Austria  (German Education Research Portal)

Overviews of the education system in Austria

Austria
Eurydice is the "Network on education systems and policies in Europe". Amongst others, it provides very comprehensive country profiles on on education systems in Europe (formerly know as "Eurypedia"). All areas of education are covered from early childhood to adult education, as well as overarching issues. Each country participating in [...]

Egypt; Ethiopia; Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium [...]
The International Bureau of Education der UNESCO (IBE) provides country dossiers focussed on education. They provide information on statistics (from the World Data on Education – WDE), national education reports, documents [...]

Europe; Austria; Belgium; Cyprus, Republic of; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary [...]
The European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education provides national overviews of special needs education in numerous European countries. The information includes the following topics: legal system, financing, [...]

Austria
The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research in Austria presents its national education reports on this page. The page itself is only available in German, but you can find an executive summary in English for reports starting in [...]

international; Australia; Austria; Belgium; China, People's Republic of; Chile; Czechia; Germany; Hungary; Ireland [...]
The review aims to bridge the gap between learning and jobs, by exploring how to make initial vocational education and training for young people respond better to labour market requirements. It therefore looks at initial VET [...]

Austria
Overview page of the Federal Institute for Quality Assurance in the Austrian School System (IQS) on the Austrian National Education Report. Unfortunately, this website is only available in German.

"Until 2018, the overall coordination was carried out by the BIFIE (Federal Institute for Educational Research, Innovation and [...]

Ministries responsible for education and science in Austria

Austria
The Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture offers information on education policy as well as current texts and data on the educational system of Austria, especially the school system. It is responsible for primary and secondary school education, pedagogical higher education institutions, adult education and lifelong [...]

Austria
The Administrative Library is a reference library and open to the general public. Employees of the Federal Government and the Länder and other public organizations are entitled to borrow items. The Digital Administrative Library makes e-publications of the Austrian ministries and public administration accessible in full text. The [...]

Educational reports on and education statistics for Austria

Belgium; Bulgaria; Cyprus, Republic of; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Switzerland; Greece [...]
Eurydice (formerly Eurypedia and Eurybase) is a network of national units based in all countries of the Erasmus+ programme. [Its] task is to explain how education systems are organised in Europe and how they [...]

Austria
Exhaustive contributions to the Austrian higher educaton system, studying, course guidance, colleges of technology, scholarships, higher education law, and information for international students. Moreover a list with contact information in the university sphere is offered, e.g. for the topics of women´s promotion, international [...]

Austria
Address-list of institutions from the educational-area, above all of libraries, documentation-places, archives, and media-centers.

Austria
Eurydice is the "Network on education systems and policies in Europe". Amongst others, it provides very comprehensive country profiles on on education systems in Europe (formerly know as "Eurypedia"). All areas of education are covered from early childhood to adult education, as well as overarching issues. Each country participating in [...]

Egypt; Ethiopia; Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium [...]
The International Bureau of Education der UNESCO (IBE) provides country dossiers focussed on education. They provide information on statistics (from the World Data on Education – WDE), national education reports, documents [...]

Austria
The European Experts' Network for Educational Technology (EENet) provides on its website general information on the education system in Austria and about the implementation of ICT policies in this country ( initiatives, programmes, projects, infrastructure, funding, teacher education and training, content development, evaluation and [...]

Austria
The website offers data on the following topics: formal education (child care, school education, higher education, educational expenditure, teaching staff), adult education, further training, lifelong learning, educational attainment and culture.

Austria
This website provides a comprehensive overview of objectives, contents, planning, implementation, organization and results of the PISA-studies 2000 and 2003 in Austria and prospective documents about the participating schools and associated test officers of PISA 2006. The heading "Aktuelles" leads to a newsletter, the project centre, [...]

Austria
The study compass offers information about studies at Austrian scientific universities, academies and universities for applied sciences. The website is divided into faculties and subjects and informs about study options at the different universities. Regarding the subjects as such information is given on the content of studies, [...]

Austria
The council of universities for applied sciences (FHR) is an authority responsible for quality assurance in the Austrian university of applied sciences-sector (UAS-sector). The main tasks of the FHR are the accreditation and evaluation of courses of study. Under the heading ' quality assurance UAS-sector' ('Qualitätssicherung [...]

Bosnia and Herzegovina; North Macedonia; Moldova, Republic of; Austria; Kosovo
The Austrian Development Agency in this report publishes in May 2007 presents key figures and projects in the sphere of education.

Austria
The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research in Austria presents its national education reports on this page. The page itself is only available in German, but you can find an executive summary in English for reports starting in [...]

Austria
The sphere of competence for education and labour market of the IWI carries out studies and reports about the themes "educational system and - policy", "formation and further education", "entrepreneurship", "labour market" and "gender mainstreaming". A focal point of research deals with the problematic of disadvantaged target groups in [...]

Austria
In 2007, the TU Dresden finished a comparative analysis of the school systems and informatics education within 13 different European and international countries. The research intended to create the basics for an overview on informatics education concentrating on primary and secondary schools all over the world by neglecting the fields [...]

Switzerland; Germany; Austria; Poland; France; Portugal; Hungary; Estonia; Lithuania; Finland; Japan; New Zealand [...]
In 2007, the TU Dresden finished a comparative analysis of the school systems and informatics education within 13 different European and international countries. The research intended to create the basics for an overview on [...]

Austria
The research projects at BIFIE cover the whole school system. In detail, the federal institute has to fulfil the following tasks: 1. Quality advancement of the school system through innovative school projects, teacher education and the development of teaching materials; 2. Education monitoring (observation of the Austrian school [...]

Austria
Overview page of the Federal Institute for Quality Assurance in the Austrian School System (IQS) on the Austrian National Education Report. Unfortunately, this website is only available in German.

"Until 2018, the overall coordination was carried out by the BIFIE (Federal Institute for Educational Research, Innovation and [...]