11. Teachers The national legislation makes a distinction between teachers working in the school education system, which comprises early childhood and school education and adult education in school settings and other educational institutions, and academic teachers in the higher education system. Separate regulations and different arrangements are in place for school education and academic teachers.
School and academic teachers (2018/19) Teachers
Total number
Full-time teachers
Part-time teachers
FTE
School teachers
702,595
595,736
106,859
701,840
93,139
89,091
4,048
Academic teachers
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Sector 87% in public schools 13% in non-public schools 89% in public HEIs 11% in non-public HEIs
11.1. School Education Teachers 11.1.1. Initial Training, Qualification Requirements and In-Service Training INITIAL TRAINING Currently, initial teacher training is provided only by HEIs. Until 2016, prospective early childhood and school education teachers were also trained in teacher training colleges and foreign language teacher training colleges, referred to as initial teacher training institutions and classified as post-secondary non-tertiary institutions in the national legislation.
→ a concurrent model, which is the predominating one: students following a degree programme in a given field of study can choose a teacher specialisation track; in this way, they complete professional teacher training, and acquire a teaching qualification, as part of their degree programme, in parallel to their subject-specific training;
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Initial teacher training comprises compulsory subject-specific training and training in psychology, pedagogy and teaching methodology. Two models of initial training exist side by side:
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