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Education in Germany is primarily the responsibility of individual German states ( Länder ), with the federal government only playing a minor role. While kindergarten (nursery school) is optional, formal education is compulsory for all children ages 6 to 18. [1] Students can complete three types of school leaving qualifications, ranging from ...
Germany’s expenditure on education constituted 6,5% of its GDP in 2014 corresponding to €190.7 billion (Destatis, 2017b). European Commission report on education and training in Germany (2016) highlighted that Germany’s general government expenditure on education stands below the EU average and is ranked ninth among the European
Berlin has a special bilingual school program embedded in the "Europaschule". At participating schools, children are taught the curriculum in German and also in a foreign language, starting in primary school and continuing in high school. Throughout nearly all boroughs, nine major European languages can be chosen as foreign languages in 29 schools.
Against the backdrop of PISA 2015 results, the aim of this study is to review basic structures of German education system by exploring curriculum development process, key features of each educational level and teacher education in order to grasp how Germany has amended her poor performance after PISA 2000 and persistently improved the quality of education.
University of Halle-Wittenberg (also in Wittenberg) University of Hamburg. HafenCity University Hamburg. Hamburg University of Technology. Helmut Schmidt University (University of the Bundeswehr, Hamburg) Hertie School of Governance (private institution with university status, awards PhD) Leibniz University Hannover.
Heretofore, little is known about the specific challenges for prospective refugee students seeking access to higher education in the German context. We focus on key individual, social, and institutional conditions for integrating refugees into the German higher education system.
German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) Jana Berg German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) Carolin Otto German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) Abstract In recent years, the number of new asylum applications in Germany has risen with a peak in 2015. Many
The four main approaches to children speaking a first language other than German, an ever-increasing group in Germany, have been: (1) separation in like-group schools; (2) assimilation; (3) a cooperative policy of trying to preserve mother tongue identity, literacy, and values; and (4) a United Europe policy to try to replace old nationalism ...