The main research areas of the Cologne Business Education Department include:
- strategic planning of the development of vocational colleges
- educational programme management
- vocational training in the craft trades
- transitional research between education and employment system
- individualisation and differentiation of educational pathways,
- development and evaluation of teaching units and teaching-learning arrangements in economics teaching,
- school development research and
- curriculum research
- international comparative vocational training research
- research-based learning during the practical semester
- task development in the context of competence acquisition
Further information on the current and completed research questions of the respective professorships can be found on the following pages or the