Hochschulen als Orte der Erwachsenenbildung

During the last two decades widening adult participation in higher education has become a central issue in international and especially European lifelong learning policy debates. At European level this is reflected in the Europe 2020 strategy set out by the European Commission. One headline target is to boost the share of the population aged 30–34 that has completed tertiary or equivalent education to 40 per cent by 2020. In the face of general trends such as the intensive use of ICT, the evolu…

Hochschule virtuell – Bildung durch Vernetzung

Taking the Bavarian Vir tual University (Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern) as an example, the author shows that the innovative potential of vir tual universities lies in the idea of a cooperation of utterly different universities, with teaching staff from different faculties, schools and backgrounds. Bringing these divergent elements together, notably in the question of a mutual acknowledgement of credits issued by each university, is one of the most ambitious aims of the Virtuelle Hochschule Bay…

Eine andere Hochschule

Hochschule und Weiterbildung

Hochschule und Weiterbildung

Vorläufer der Volkshochschule in Deutschland

Erziehung und Schulung im Dritten Reich

Was verändert sich?

Die Hochschule als Weiterbildungsanbieter

This report examines the possible input of higher education institutions for developing the local education landscape. The education landscape in Biberach and the local college serve as an example for creating a regional education landscape in cooperation with public and industrial partners.

Zur Weiterbildung an die Hochschule?

Vocational continuing education is becoming more significant in modern employment biographies. A growing range of work-based study programmes and the recent opening tendency for persons holding vocational qualifications attracts attention to universities as providers of continuing education. Still, academic formats play a comparatively small role in the market of continuing education. The report explores the reasons for the low acceptance of academic continuing education. For this purpose, 72 p…