University College of Teacher Education Styria

The University College of Teacher Education Styria (Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark) is a teacher training institution in Graz, the capital of Styria. It awards undergraduate and master's degrees and also runs continuing education programmes for practising teachers. Its work sits in the tertiary sector, with a focus on teacher education and on research into how the education system develops and improves.

The institution has roots in the former Teachers' Educational Institute dating from 1870, which was first at Burggasse 13 in Graz and later moved to the main building on Hasnerplatz in Graz-Geidorf, reopened in 1909. The University College itself was founded on 1 October 2007, from a merger of the Federal Education Academy in Styria, the Graz Vocational Education Academy and the Pedagogical Institute Styria. That history leaves it with several buildings around Graz. A Rector, a Hochschulrat and curriculum committees manage its activities, and it falls under the Federal Minister of Education rather than the science ministry that oversees the PhD-awarding public universities.

Teaching covers primary education, secondary general education (with 26 general education disciplines and 2 specialisations) and secondary vocational training, including dual education and technical-industrial education, nutrition, and information and communication. Teacher training runs as four-year bachelor courses followed by one to two-year master's courses, plus summer and continuing education courses. Master's degrees include Health Promotion and Health Education (fee-paying), Primary School Education, and Emotional and Social Development. Secondary teacher education happens with colleges and universities in Styria, Carinthia and Burgenland, particularly the University of Graz on the same street, where students get some disciplinary instruction. Applicants for teaching courses must be fluent in German, among other criteria.

The national register lists the institution in the Pädagogische Hochschule category, with 15 programmes of all kinds and languages. None of them is taught in English. So an international student coming here should expect to study in German.

Applications go directly to the institution, which sets its own application period and entrance procedure. Students from outside the EU/EEA need a Residence Permit, Student. At public institutions, EU/EEA and Swiss students pay no tuition within the standard duration plus two semesters, while most other students pay a per-semester fee. Every student pays the student union fee.

The register lists 15 programmes of all kinds and languages at this institution. None of them is listed as taught in English, so this directory shows no programme list for it. If you read German, the institution's own website is the place to start.