Berlin reduces the demands on the degree

The Senate has lowered the barriers to education degrees . Both the training maturity - the former secondary school - as well as the Middle university degree are starting this school year easier to achieve than in the total schools was previously possible. Moreover, one can ascend with lower grades to upper secondary level . This is to improve the much-anticipated results from the first year of secondary school transition in the opinion of school leaders . This Thursday start for about 30,000 tenth graders the final exams , including 15,000 secondary school students . The changes mainly concern the minimum requirements for the year, passing notes , which together with the intermediate school leaving exams ( MSA). As an average grade on the transcript now reaches one for the MSA " four". In earlier comprehensive schools satisfying services were requested. Recently , a " six " allowed In addition, a "six " is allowed , which was previously excluded to the main schools of thought when it sought the MSA. In addition, the students offered several investigations so that they create the training maturity. "The goal is : Everyone comes through ," puts it , the Rector of the Jean Piaget School in Berlin- Heller village , Marion Lange. " There are many loopholes ," says Lothar bread from GEW headmaster Association , the new and very complicated procedure . Big changes are also in the transition to upper secondary level . In the recent comprehensive schools you had a good "three " reach when you sought the High School . Enough is enough weak "three " . For schools, this means significant distortions because more unsuitable students will ascend as far in the eleventh classes. To prevent this , one must give them lower grades than they deserved , complain headmaster. " The victims are the students ," says Jens Großpietsch , one of the most prestigious rectors of Berlin, firmly . In his view, the previous requirements were reliable indicators of the High School suitability in the notes. " The financial statements do not hold what they promise " Among the schools that had warned from the beginning before this development , one of the Neukölln Clay Middle School . Mid-level manager Michael Zielonkowski has all new arrangements compared with those who were once for the total schools. "The demands for the MSA in the year passing notes were lowered by 38 percent in relation to the necessary point total ," he has calculated . Cause of the changes was the abolition of primary, secondary school and comprehensive schools in favor of the secondary schools. One of the main goals was that fewer students remain without a degree. The Chamber of Commerce is concerned about the development. Even now considered the financial statements are not what they would promise . " More and more companies devise their own admission tests to determine the suitability of the candidate ," says education consultant Nadia Chabbi . The educational administration denies a level loss. The changes are due to the necessary adjustments among the three former types of schools .

Adjusted investigations against teachers for abuse

The Darmstadt public prosecutor discontinued the investigation against a former teacher because of the suspicion of sexual abuse of the controversial Odenwaldschule . Interrogations of students had found no evidence of such an offense , the authority said. The investigation of the recently dismissed without notice teacher on suspicion of possession of child pornography but go on. The 32- year-old had admitted to having downloaded child pornography from the Internet. The initial suspicion of sexual abuse against a teacher based on observations of students in the Odenwald School . All possible abuse victims were then questioned by prosecutors and police. Since it had found no evidence of criminal abuses , the investigation had been set , said the prosecutor . To assess whether the teacher had violated the principles of the school , was not for the authority , said the spokesman continued . " The limit of offenses has not been exceeded . " The well-known as a reform school for their alternative approaches to education establishment in 2010 was in the headlines when it was revealed that children had been sexually abused there decades . The private school had subsequently issued a public apology and promised a consistent and comprehensive appraisal .

Sports, Education and Small School Innovation

The role of sport in the African society is a prominent issue . The success of public education in the 20th century led to a standardized idea arose of how a " school " look ; and an athletics track and rugby posts have prominently in people 's minds begin sitting . The 400m track is best known , with at least here and there is a primary school with a 300m one, but large it needs to be , and with the netball courts , tennis courts and cricket nets in the drive past more visible than the hall , the classrooms and purposeful facilities such as media centers and laboratories . Sports can be a healthy and productive role in educational games, and the institution of good sports facilities can be helpful . However, it is unfortunate that this visible element of a school site parents sometimes forget the academic institution at least also properly reviewed . Widespread incidents of unnecessary and overly encouraging achievement urge - more often than parents of the pupils themselves - suggests that sport and a dangerous superficial life and worldview easy go . Smaller private schools have a challenge for sports facilities in place, budgets rightly focussed on the basic academic presentation focus , and the extensive property needed for meaningful sports fields , can be difficult to afford . The small private schools often quite successfully leased facilities of public schools to meetings to offer , but it does not display obvious as part of the school 's activities through the years , and it is true that the practice is not as effectively presented without a own sports field . Options for different tracks that lay out in more compact format, is happy increasingly seen in the South African school material . Innovative thinking , for example, a 100m - naellooplengte diagonally across a field to mark it makes for more of the little schools possible to own courts operate . It's an example that you should not become entangled everything just standardized should stay, and again it is the little school that meaning to teach : the need to plan to bring innovation and entrepreneurship emerges that a public school with his large and obvious amenities can only dream of . There is much talk about entrepreneurship , innovation and independent thinking skills: the sports field and sports presentation provides interesting food for thought , or the large state school is the answer ( and hence the large Curro school) and whether the economy and the country's progress very need more smaller schools ?