The employees of higher education institutions working in higher education institutions include academic teachers, research workers, art workers, and other personnel. There is no special education programme for higher education pedagogical employees. To qualify, the academic employee must complete the respective higher education degree.

The higher education teachers work in the position of a ”professor”, ”visiting professor”, ”docent”, lecturer, assistant lecturer, and lector. The position of  ”professor” and the position of  ”docent” are associated with the fields of study in which the scientific-pedagogical degrees of  ”professor” and  ”docent” are awarded.

A qualification requirement to work as a ”professor” is a scientific-pedagogical degree in the field of study to which the post is linked or in a related field of study.

A qualification requirement to work as a  ”docent” is the scientific-pedagogical degree of ”docent” in the field of study to which the post is linked or in a related field of study.

A qualification requirement to work as a "lecturer" is higher education of the third level. If the higher education teacher working as a lecturer does not have a PhD. or scientific-pedagogical degree, they must study to obtain one.

A qualification requirement to work as an "assistant lecturer" is a master's degree.

A qualification requirement to work as a "lector" is, depending on the working tasks, higher education of the first level or higher education of the second level.