Universities of Applied Sciences: More money or fewer offers

2023-07-25 01:11:00

In view of the high inflation, the basic financing of the courses is not secured with the funds provided so far.

While the education department for the universities of applied sciences wants to allow an increase of 4.5 percent from autumn 2024, the FHK is demanding an increase of 10 percent at the beginning of 2024 and 2025. “We are in talks with the ministry to show that there is still a need for action.” If there is still no more money, it will not only become increasingly difficult for the universities of applied sciences to find qualified staff, Prommer said, referring to the international competition. Instead, every university of applied sciences would have to check which services could save money.

requirement for a doctorate

Prommer criticizes that the fact that universities of applied sciences are no longer allowed to offer doctorates is no longer up-to-date.

Among the European Universities, the Austrian universities of applied sciences are the only ones that are still not able to do this. In any case, the possibility of accredited, i.e. quality-assured doctorates is only required in individual subject areas in which the universities of applied sciences are very strong in research.

At the universities of applied sciences, doctoral students are already employed for research, who are supervised there by professors who, for legal reasons, have to do the doctorate themselves at the universities.