People, who completed their first phase of education (i.e. either compulsory education or vocational schools) and who are interested in a personal further education, often make use of adult education opportunities.
Adult education gives them the possibility to not only visit courses, that personally interest them, but they can also catch up on educational qualifications.
In Austria, there is a great variety of adult education types and opportunities. Adult education courses are often specially designed for working people.
Adult education is a kind of further education, but it differs sometimes from continued education. Continued education is a form of further education for a learned or actual job.
There is a great amount of public and private companies in the adult education sector. Please inform yourself about the various possibilities in the following collection of links.
Links
- Society of Austrian Adult Education Centres
- erwachsenenbildung.at (Adult education)
- Vocational Promotion Centre Austria
- weiterbildungsmarkt.at (Further education)