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 .