Vocational Education and Personnel Capacity Building

The Master's course of study in "Vocational Education and Personnel Capacity Building" presupposes a university degree in education science, in economic science or a scientific-technical area. Its goal is the acquisition of scientific and technical performance competence for tasks in pre-service and continuous vocational education and training, and in human resource development. The following tasks are essential: Teaching in vocational education and further vocational education Administrative tasks in institutions of vocational education and further vocational education Administrative and concept designing tasks in projects of vocational education Administrative and concept designing tasks in teacher education for the vocational education area Research activities in vocational education and further vocational education as well as in adult education Administrative activities and organisation in corporate human resources development The study programme extends and intensifies existing knowledge and experience in the domains of project planning, design, and evaluation of vocational education as well as adult education and human resource development according to varying country-specific contexts. The study programme aims at showing students how to further the manifold integration of a vocational education system, from measures and projects of vocational education and further education, into the structure of a society. Students will be able to put the resulting influences and developments into practice. The training should enable graduates to work in institutions of vocational education and further vocational education, universities and research institutes, administration, planning and consultancy bureaus, human resources and education departments in economic enterprises and in national and international organisations, which deal with the development of human resources on national or regional levels. This four-semester postgraduate programme always starts in October. It consists of lectures and seminars amounting to about 22 classes per week in three semesters. The course is completed with one semester of work on the Master's thesis. The programme is divided into a compulsory section for basic training and a section of optional classes chosen in accordance with the student's later professional field. It includes "hospitations" (comparable to internships) in an institution of vocational education and doing field research of four weeks each. PDF Download