The start of teacher education reform has been postponed by a year after widespread criticism during the review process. Universities and universities for teacher training (PH) feared a loss of quality due to the tight schedule.
The bill adopted in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday now stipulates that primary education teachers can only start the new structure from 2025/2026 with a three-year bachelor’s degree and a two-year master’s degree; for secondary school teachers this should start in 2026. /27.
Training ‘purifies’
Teacher training for primary education (especially primary school) currently takes four years of a bachelor’s degree plus one year of a master’s degree. In secondary education (secondary education, AHS, BMHS) this is four years of bachelor’s degree plus two years of master’s degree, but for this group this will be one year shorter in the future. The training should also be more practice-oriented and the master’s program should be easier to study part-time and “purified”.
For example, Education Minister Martin Polaschek (ÖVP) emphasized after the Council of Ministers that there should be no duplication of educational sciences in bachelor’s and master’s programs. New options are also planned at secondary school, such as studying bundles of subjects such as MINT (mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, technology) instead of one subject.
The reform will shorten one of the longest teacher training programs in the world, Polaschek said. “We are creating a modern education that meets the demands and demands of schools in the 21st century, while of course maintaining high quality.”
Postponement due to complexity
Polaschek justified the postponement of the start date with the complexity of the project: after all, in high school, where courses are organized in associations of colleges and universities from different states, all institutions would have to develop the same study plans. In primary schools, where each PH develops the curricula individually, it should be possible to start as early as 2025/2026.
Also new in the bill is the possibility of special study places in veterinary medicine: as with human medicine studies, five percent of veterinary medicine should be reserved for a limited period for students who commit to working in public health care for a while . time after graduation.
Source: Krone
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