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HTL: Facts and Figures 2011
In the entire field of engineering, arts and crafts there are about 100 locations offering a wide range of education and training
Currently there are 102 BMHS – colleges and schools of engineering, arts and crafts. The locations comprise 76 HTLs (23 of them are privately run) and 26 foreperson courses, which are predominantly offered by WIFI and BFI. The range of education and training covers 5-year colleges of engineering, arts and crafts, 4-year VET schools, 8-semester VET colleges for people in employment, post-secondary VET-courses (either 4 semesters during the day or 6 semesters in the evening for people in employment) as well as foreperson courses, building craftsperson schools and master craftsperson courses. All established technical, technical-industrial and arts and crafts disciplines of the commercial and industrial economy are covered by according offers and are subdivided in the following specialized departments: Art and Design, Biomedical and Health Technology, Building Technology, Business Management, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Construction Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering and Technical Informatics, Food Technology, Graphics and Communication Design, Industrial Management, Informatics, Information Technology, Interior Design and Timber Technology, Material Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Media Technology and Management and Plastics Engineering.
Total development
At the beginning of the school year 2011/2012 the total number of students in the colleges and schools of engineering, arts and crafts was 62,489; that means a slight increase compared to last year (+0.3%). In Burgenland and Lower Austria there was virtually no change. Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Vienna and Carinthia see an upward trend (Salzburg +4.9%, Vorarlberg +2.9%, Tyrol +2%, Vienna +1.4% and Carinthia +0.4%). The provinces of Styria and Upper Austria show a slight decline (between -1.4% and -2.2%). As in recent years, the 5-year colleges of engineering, arts and crafts (rise by 0.8% to 44.323) show an upward trend. Schools of engineering show a decline (-2.8% to 8.867).
Most notable is the steep increase in the fields of “Timber Technology” and “Media Technology
Regarding area specializations, above-average increases can be seen in the 5-year VET colleges in the fields of “Timber Technology” (+3.3%) and “Construction Engineering” (+1.9%). Remarkable rises are also noticed in the small fields of “Media Technology” (+8.7%) and “Art and Design” (+1.6%). The fields of “Business/Industrial Management” (-4.2%) and “Electrical/Electronic Engineering” (-1%) have decreased. In the other fields of specialization there is practically no change.
Graduates in the colleges
In 2012 some 9,000 students will graduate from HTLs (change compared to last year +2.8%; including the part-time forms for people in employment) and about 1,900 from schools of engineering (+4.6% compared to last year).
Like last year: Increasing attractiveness for female students
In the school year of 2010/2011 the percentage of female students in colleges and schools of engineering, arts and crafts stands at 15.6% Austrian-wide (that shows an increase of about 2.7% compared to last year) and is above average in Vorarlberg (19.8%), in Tyrol and Vienna (18.9%), in Styria (16.3%) and in Salzburg (16%). In Carinthia and Upper Austria the percentage of female students reach 14%, in Lower Austria and in Burgenland the percentage ranges from 11% to 12.6%. Traditionally the master craftsperson courses achieve a maximum number of female students at 44.6% and in the post-secondary VET-courses there are 38.8%. In the 5-year colleges of engineering the maximum value is reached in the department of “Arts” (70%). The numbers is also above average in the departments of “Media Technology” (57.2%), “Timber Technology” (34.1%), “Chemistry” (33.7%), “Construction Engineering” (20.9%), “Industrial Management/Business Management” (16.6%) and in “Material Engineering” (15%). “Informatics/Information Technology” (8.8%), “Electronics/Electrical Engineering” (6.2%) and “Mechanical Engineering/ Mechatronics” (4.2%) are at the bottom end with only single digits.
Colleges and schools for people in employment
The total number of students in the colleges and schools for people in employment (HTL courses including preparatory courses) show a slight increase (+0.2%) to 5,715. The increases are mainly in the fields of “Art and Design“ (+15.8%), “Construction Engineering” (+5.8%) and “Mechanical Engineering/Mechatronics” (+2.3%). A downward trend can be observed in the field of “Industrial Management/Business Management” (between 2% and 4%).
Urgent demand for HTL-teachers in a few years time
At present 5,100 professors of engineering subjects and general education subjects and about 2,200 technical instructors in the building yards and accordingly the workshops and workshop-laboratories teach and instruct at HTLs. The average age of the professors is 49 years old, about 1,900 teachers are between 51 and 60 years old. For teachers of engineering subjects the average age is 47 years and more than 800 teachers are between 51 and 60 years. The recruitment of qualified teaching staff will be still a great challenge for the forthcoming years.
