Chapter 29
Survey of distance training in Luxembourg
Flag Map of Central Europe. Luxembourg is highlighted.

National characteristics

Luxembourg is a representative democracy and constitutional monarchy. Executive power lies with the Grand Duke. It is exercised by the members of the government under the co-ordinating authority of the prime minister.

All sectors of education are governed by regulation and directives drawn up by the National Ministry of Education. The structure of the Ministry is unusual as not all officials of the Ministry are public servants in the strict term as a certain number of posts are filled by teachers. The direct management of educational institutions is shared between the State, the communes and private bodies.

National data

Luxembourg forms the Low, or Benelux, Countries. The country has an area of 2,586 sq km.

1997 European Union documentation gives the population of Luxembourg as 389,800.

The gross domestic product per capita is 33,284 Ecu.
Population
389,800
GDP per head
33,284Ecu

Vocational education and training

Contrary to primary, secondary, vocational and university education, the continuing vocational training market is an open market and only a small section comes under the responsibility of the Ministry for National Education and Vocational Training.

The economic situation in Luxembourg, characterised by a very low rate of unemployment and a large number of foreign employees (migrant and frontier-zone employees) creates specific needs.

These needs are being addressed by the INFPC, the Institut National pour le Developpement de la Formation Professionelle Continue (National Institute for the Development of Continuing Professional Training).

Distance training

There is no official provision of training at a distance from government structures. There are no proprietary distance training structures based in Luxembourg.

There already exist connections with educational institutions in Germany, enabling distance learning and training.

List of institutional providers

Nil

Distance training: survey of selected providers

Nil

University-level distance education: survey of selected providers

There is a small university structure in Luxembourg for the first year of university studies in some fields like economics, languages, mathematics, applied computing.

Nevertheless, citizens go to neighbouring countries for university studies. There is therefore no open university and no distance education programmes from conventional universities for undergraduate studies.

Statistics

The statistics established for this report on Luxembourg are:

1994

Open University 0 
Conventional Universities 0 
Government training 0 
Private Training 0 
Total 0 

1995

Open University 0 
Conventional Universities 0 
Government training 0 
Private Training 0 
Total 0 

1996

Open University 0 
Conventional Universities 0 
Government training 0 
Private Training 0 
Total 0 

1997

Open University 0 
Conventional Universities 0 
Government training 0 
Private Training 0 
Total 0