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Educational Policy: Educational policy in Austria covers schools, 
universities and adult education. Due to the economic upswing, 
education has been extended continually since 1960. Acts relating to 
education are passed with a two-thirds majority in the Nationalrat. 
After 1945, the conflicting attitudes of the Austrian People's Party 
(OeVP) and the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPOe) regarding 
education caused some problems: The OeVP aims at giving people the 
type of education best suited to their abilities within a 
differentiated school system, while the SPOe stands for an egalitarian 
approach. When the conflict between the SPOe and the Catholic Church 
was settled with the Concordat of 1960/61, a compromise was reached in 
some areas in 1962. The higher education sector is a matter of federal 
legislation. The Hochschulorganisationsgesetz (University Organisation 
Act, HOG) of 1955 created a uniform legal base for universities; it 
was replaced by the Universitaetsorganisationsgesetz (UOG) in 1975, 
which in turn was thoroughly revised in 1993. The 1975 Act initiated a 
democratisation process at Austrian universities, while the main goal 
of the 1993 reform was to achieve a higher level of efficiency. Adult 
education is provided by Adult Education Centres, employers' and 
employees' organisations (WIFI, Institute of Economic Promotion; BFI, 
Institute of Vocational Training), religious communities (Catholic 
Education Society) and political parties (political academies).


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