Changing demographics will lead to sharply increasing numbers in all post-compulsory education and training in the next ten years. According to the Federal Statistical Office’s (FSO) reference scenario, numbers will rise by 15% for the upper secondary level (from 390 000 to 450 000 students) and by 18% for all universities and institutes of technology, universities of applied sciences and of teacher education (from 276 000 to 326 000 students). For both the upper secondary level and the higher education institutions, considerable increases are expected in education and training related to IT, health and social work.
