In Austria, binding training objectives are defined for the company-based part of dual training (approximately 70-80 per cent of total training time), but there are scarcely any normative specifications on how these are to be achieved and there is no systematic quality assurance of the practice. The conditions under which vocational training…

This study aims to identify the key factors which influence the functioning quality and success of training companies. Based on an analysis of the requirements included in the quality management system standards for providers of education and training services, a set of twenty factors has been developed. This was followed by a survey for…

Questions assumptions of contractualism: education as a private commodity, enlightened self-interest, specifiability of outcomes, individualistic view of humanity, client awareness of best interests. Quality of a contractualist approach may be diminished through fragmentation, inflexibility, orthodoxy, situationalism, inequality, or…