Continuing Higher Education in Germany

Towards Permeability between Vocational and Academic Education. Experiences and Analyses from Current Initiatives in Germany

“…The uniqueness of this programme is its Internet-supported design and the fact that it is a continuing education programme at Bachelor level. An Internet survey of all continuing higher education programmes in Germany shows that less than 5% of all study programmes are at Bachelor level (Faulstich et al, 2008).…”

Organisation and Management of Continuing Higher Education: Findings of a Comparative Study in Six Countries from a German Perspective

“…in the form of an academic centre, as a business unit or as a department). It became clear, however, that even if a university has a centralised CHE unit, CHE is provided from decentralised units within the university as well (as reported by 61 per cent of the respondents) (Faulstich, Graeßner, Bade-Becker, and Gorys, 2008).…”

“…For universities, these types of programmes are attractive because they can charge market-oriented tuition fees that cover the emerging costs and might as well cross-finance other underfinanced programmes. 8 According to the respondents of the written questionnaires or the interviews, there will be a growing demand for CHE-programmes with a longer duration (Certificate-, Bachelor-or Master's-programmes) in the future (Faulstich et al, 2008;Pellert and Cendon, 2008;Zawacki-Richter and Reith, 2008).…”

“…Finnish CCEs have their own, in part highlystaffed course development teams which, according to instructional design process, plan, develop and evaluate courses and programmes on a need-based and learnercentred basis. This is seldom the case in Germany as teaching activities within continuing education are usually part-time positions, which indicates a certain lack of professionalisation (Faulstich et al, 2008).…”