{"id":30994,"date":"2026-04-28T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/?p=30994"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:17:49","slug":"fh-haw-sind-oesterreichs-garant-fuer-soziale-durchlaessigkeit-im-hochschulsystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/fh-haw-sind-oesterreichs-garant-fuer-soziale-durchlaessigkeit-im-hochschulsystem\/","title":{"rendered":"FH\/HAW are Austria's guarantors of social permeability in the higher education system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current <em>Student Social Survey 2025<\/em> clearly shows that Austria's universities of applied sciences (UAS)\/universities of applied sciences (UAS) make a decisive contribution to more equal opportunities in the education system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, a significantly larger proportion of students at UASs come from non-academic households. 63 per cent of first-year students are so-called \u201efirst-generation students\u201c - i.e. the first in their family to study. At universities, on the other hand, this proportion is only 48 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently, there are clear differences in access to higher education: While universities continue to be strongly characterised by the educational background of parents, UASs are much more successful in breaking down social barriers. Access is demonstrably more permeable here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UASs have a particularly strong impact where traditional educational pathways are not effective: Part-time study programmes enable people with employment, family commitments or non-traditional educational biographies in particular to take up a degree course. In these programmes, the proportion of first-generation students is as high as 70 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201eThese figures confirm what we have been emphasising for years: FH\/HAW clearly promote social permeability in the Austrian higher education system,\u201c says FHK President Ulrike Prommer. \u201eWe succeed in opening up educational opportunities regardless of origin, income or family background. Our universities are an effective means of combating inherited social inequality.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study also shows that UASs are particularly attractive for students with a migration background and people from less educated backgrounds. They offer access where other educational paths often remain blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FHK sees the results as confirmation of its call for further expansion and sustainable funding of the sector: \u201eOur universities open up academic knowledge to underrepresented groups and promote excellent minds from all social classes. An investment in our universities is an investment in equal opportunities, sustainability and social peace,\u201c says FHK Secretary General Kurt Koleznik.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die aktuelle Studierenden-Sozialerhebung 2025 zeigt klar: \u00d6sterreichs Fachhochschulen (FH)\/Hochschulen f\u00fcr Angewandte Wissenschaften (HAW) leisten einen entscheidenden Beitrag zu mehr Chancengerechtigkeit im Bildungssystem. So stammt an FH\/HAW ein deutlich gr\u00f6\u00dferer Anteil der Studierenden aus nicht-akademischen Haushalten. 63 Prozent der Studienanf\u00e4nger:innen sind sogenannte \u201eFirst-Generation Students\u201c \u2013 also die ersten in ihrer Familie, die ein Studium aufnehmen. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nachrichten"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30995,"href":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30994\/revisions\/30995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhk.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}