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1.   Recommendations for Merging the Two Education Systems (September 26, 1990)
A joint GDR-FRG commission of ministers of education and cultural affairs recommended priorities in the democratic reform of East German education and research. Their recommendations envisioned the....
2.   Federal President Roman Herzog Calls for a Reform of the German Education System (November 5, 1997)
Alarmed by the German educational system’s loss of international prestige, Federal President Roman Herzog calls for a fundamental reform of education at all....
3.   An Education Researcher on the Reform Process at East German Universities (1999)
In a detailed examination of two case studies, the University of Leipzig and Humboldt University in Berlin, East German education researcher Peer Pasternack describes the problems surrounding the....
4.   Students Protest the Introduction of Tuition Fees (April 1999)
The Action Alliance against Tuition Fees [Aktionsbündnis gegen Studiengebühren or ABS] formed in April 1999 to protest the Red-Green government’s apparent unwillingness to make good on its....
5.   German Students Perform Poorly on the OECD’s PISA Test (2002)
Gymnasium principal Dieter Smolka reports on German students’ disappointing performance on the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test in 2000. Then he outlines his....
6.   A Neoliberal Commentator Demands the Unfettering of German Universities (August 5/12, 2002)
Detlef Müller-Böling, the director of the Center for Higher Education Development in Gütersloh, advocates freeing German universities from their bureaucratic fetters in order to make them more intellectually....
7.   Minister for Education and Research Edelgard Bulmahn Recommends All-Day Schooling (February 13, 2003)
In response to the PISA results, Minister of Education and Research Edelgard Bulmahn (SPD) proposed a 4 billion Euro federal program to facilitate the expansion of all-day schooling.
8.   The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Federal States Decides to Introduce B.A. and M.A. Degree Programs (June 12, 2003)
In response to the Bologna Declaration, which aimed to harmonize educational structures throughout Europe, the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Federal....
9.   An East German School Official Reports on her Experiences during the Wende (October 1, 2003)
A school official in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district of East Berlin describes the legacy of the GDR dictatorship in the East German education system, analyzes the various challenges associated with....
10.   Dismissed East German Faculty Members Make up a "Second Academic Culture" (May 15, 2004)
According to a study by the Institute for Higher Education Research (HoF) in Halle, East German academics and researches were the “losers of the Wende [i.e. transformation].” After the fall....
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