Academisation or vocational drift?

International developments in the tertiary sector of education

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The OECD data show an enormous increase in the number of participants in academic courses of education for the period from 1995 to 2010. In the same timeframe, occupation-related and practice-related courses in the tertiary sector of education are stagnating. The article deals with the question of whether it is justifiable to talk about an academisation in this context or whether the content of the tertiary education programmes is rather drifting into a “vocation-oriented” direction.