Pre-study course
Pre-study courses are preparatory institutions in Austria. They offer applicants with insufficient knowledge of the German language and with a foreign university entrance qualification that is not recognized as equivalent to an Austrian secondary school leaving certificate (also called Matura ) courses to prepare for the supplementary examinations prescribed for them, and they hold these exams. There are preparatory courses in Vienna , Graz and Leoben .
Development and organization
The history of the preparatory courses is closely linked to development aid and development policy. The first preparatory course was established in Leoben in 1961, followed by Vienna in 1962 (initially in Mödling / Lower Austria) and Graz in 1963.
Today, the preparatory courses are run by the Austrian Exchange Service Society (OeAD), a GmbH of the Republic of Austria, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the local universities.
As a rule, the chosen university decides which supplementary exams have to be taken, and the students are listed there as extraordinary audiences. After the positive exams, they begin their regular studies.
In addition to the range of courses and exams, the preparatory courses also support international students in their integration into the Austrian, especially academic, environment and see themselves as mediators between different educational systems, worlds and cultures. In addition, they try to establish an international network of preparatory institutions, especially those in German-speaking countries.
VWU - preparatory course at the universities of Vienna
On the supervisory board of the VWU the six scientific Vienna Universities (are University of Vienna , Vienna University of Economics , Vienna University of Technology , Medical University of Vienna , University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Vienna ) represented.
Around 50 academically trained public service teachers work at VWU. There are courses for German as a foreign language , English, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology / environmental studies, history / social studies and geography / economics.
The VWU offers financially supported course places in German for defined groups of students (e.g. from Least Developed Countries ) as well as in the other subjects for participants with a good knowledge of German. At the VWU, the financially unsupported German courses for students at selected partner organizations are coordinated and their supplementary exams are held.
Around 900 students from 75 to 80 countries visit the VWU every semester.
VGUH - preparatory course at Graz universities and colleges
The pre-study course of the Graz universities and colleges (VGUH) is carried out together with the five Graz university institutions (Karl-Franzens- University Graz , Technical University Graz , Medical University Graz , University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and FH Joanneum ), which have an advisory board as Form the supervisory body of the VGUH.
At the VGUH there are courses and supplementary exams for students from more than 70 different countries in German as a foreign language as well as biology / environmental studies, chemistry, English, geography / economics, history / social studies, mathematics and physics.
Pre-study course in Leoben
The Leoben pre-study course offers courses and supplementary exams for international students who have been admitted to the University of Leoben for German as a foreign language, mathematics, physics, chemistry and descriptive geometry.
Similar facilities
In addition to these traditional preparatory courses, there are also institutions in Austria with similar objectives at the FH Upper Austria , the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland and the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien .
The preparatory courses are comparable in terms of their tasks and activities with the preparatory colleges in Germany .
Web links
- VWU website
- Film: Conquering the Word - 50 Years of VWU
- VGUH website
- Website of the Leoben pre-study course
- Website of the project CHAGAL - Curriculum Guidelines for access programs into higher education for underrepresented adult learners, coordinated at VWU
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Dippelreiter: 50 years of educational mobility . A little history of the OeAD. Ed .: Hubert Dürrstein . Publication series of the OeAD-GmbH, Volume II. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck, ISBN 978-3-7065-5128-1 .>
- ↑ University of Vienna International Report 2015. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: univie.ac.at. University of Vienna, August 2015, accessed on August 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Pre-study courses. In: oead.at. Austrian Exchange Service, accessed on October 18, 2017 .
- ^ [1] Website of the project CHAGAL - Curriculum Guidelines for access programs into higher education for underrepresented adult learners, accessed on December 30, 2016.
- ↑ [derstandard.at/2000031937560/Drittstaatsangehoerige-Uni-Vorbereitung-wird-teurer] Der Standard, 2016-03-03, accessed on December 30, 2016.
- ↑ About us. In: vorstudienlehrgang.at. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. VGUH website, accessed on December 30, 2016.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the pre-study course in Leoben, accessed on December 30, 2016.
