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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
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For Germany, what we know is that only 5.5 percent of students who obtained their Abitur at Gymnasien or Gesamtschulen in 2005 reached an average Abitur grade below 1.5 (A), 36 percent between 1.5 and 2.4 (B), 50 percent between 2.5 and 3.4 (C), and 9 percent below 3.4 (D/F) (Kultusministerkonferenz, 2006).
The CHE University Ranking ( German: CHE Hochschulranking) is an annual ranking of German universities and colleges. It is a subject‐specific, multidimensional system aimed at providing information for students, with its main emphasis on teaching, rather than research. [ 1 ] Introduced in 1998 and published by the Centre for Higher Education ...
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.
The German education system is directly influenced by a set of principles which come from social, cultural, and political realms in Germany. This document provides a detailed and comprehensive treatment of four key academic and nonacademic factors that are of interest to U.S. policymakers.
Inter Nationes, Kennedyallee 91-103, Bonn, Germany, D-53175; Tel: 02-28-880-0. This book outlines the diversity of the German federal education system. The introduction presents a preliminary survey of the history of German education since 1945. Reference is made to the Soviet Occupied Zone and the German Democratic Republic, which is ...