Vocational school teaching degree starts WiSe 2024/25

New degree program: Teaching degree for upper secondary level (vocational subjects)

In response to the acute shortage of teachers at vocational schools in the state of Brandenburg, a non-consecutive Master's degree course for the teaching profession in vocational subjects will be introduced at the University of Potsdam in the winter semester 2024/2025. In order to make the qualification pathways for teachers more flexible, the new course opens up the possibility of a teaching career without having previously completed a teaching-related Bachelor's degree (B.Ed). Technical or business-related Bachelor's degrees such as Electrical Engineering (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering (B.Eng.), Business Administration (B.A.) or Business Informatics (B.Sc.) are eligible. Students study one vocational subject (1st subject: engineering or economics) and one general subject (2nd subject: mathematics, computer science, economics). 

Four new professorships for the vocational school teaching degree

Four new professorships for vocational education, business education, didactics of technology and information technology will also be established at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences for the development of teaching and research as part of the new course and will be filled as soon as possible. The new professorships build a bridge between established subject areas such as business informatics, the general education subject of business-work-technology and the new field of vocational education. In the future, synergies will be exploited and joint research will be promoted, for example in the field of digitalization - both subject-related and with regard to school and vocational education. The application deadline is 31.07.2023. 

Contact:
Jörg Hochmuth, Studiengangskoordinator 
joerg.hochmuthuuni-potsdampde