Education Standards and Competence-oriented Curricula - The Austrian Technical Colleges Take a New Approach to Excellence

In Austria, Technical Colleges are those educational institutions that train and educate the skilled technical staff required by the Austrian labour market and the universities. These colleges have contributed a lot to Austria’s economic success and every year about 8,000 young engineers leave the t...

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Main Authors: Wolfgang Pachatz, Axel Zafoschnig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 2011-10-01
Series:International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP)
Online Access:http://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jep/article/view/1818