{"id":3083,"date":"2011-01-01T01:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T00:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/germany2\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T01:32:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T00:32:39","slug":"entries-00504-00505","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/entries-00504-00505\/","title":{"rendered":"Entries 00504-00505"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00505:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>19 JANUARY 2004, MONDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Elite &#8211; 5<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor that reason, the research elite of the world is moving to the United States. For example, in the natural sciences, almost half of all doctoral candidates are individuals who have not been born in the USA. Even for a German researcher planning to work in Germany, a stay in the Promised Land has become obligatory. And nearly a third of young German academics are teaching and doing research in the United States on a permanent basis. Often it\u2019s the best ones who stay there. Three of the four Nobel Prize laureates of German background in the past years are doing research in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Martin Spiewak, \u201cElite,\u201d Die Zeit, 03\/2004.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<\/p>\n<p>19 JANUAR 2004, MONTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Elite &#8211; 5<\/p>\n<p>\u201eDeshalb zieht es dorthin auch die Forscherelite der Welt. So sind zum Beispiel in den Naturwissenschaften fast die H\u00e4lfte aller US-Doktoranden nicht in den USA geboren. Auch f\u00fcr einen deutschen Nachwuchsforscher ist der Aufenthalt im Gelobten Land mittlerweile obligat. Und knapp jeder Dritte der deutschen Jungakademiker forscht und lehrt auf Dauer in den Vereinigten Staaten. Oft sind es die Besten, die bleiben. Drei von vier Nobelpreistr\u00e4gern deutscher Herkunft der vergangenen Jahre forschen jenseits des Atlantiks.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n<p>Martin Spiewak, \u201eElite\u201c, Die Zeit, 03\/2004.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<\/p>\n<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00504:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>18 JANUARY 2004, SUNDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Elite &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA situation where universities are all at the same level, as in Germany, does have certain advantages. A degree from the University of Flensburg is officially worth as much as one from the University of Konstanz. And every university professor in Germany is allowed to feel that he\u2019s a top researcher. However, at the international level, this legally prescribed equality leads to mediocrity. To this extent, the analysis by the Social Democratic politician who is the self-appointed \u2018guiding force in education\u2019 is correct: not a single German university can compete with the dozen best American universities from, Berkeley to Yale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Martin Spiewak, \u201cElite,\u201d Die Zeit, 03\/2004.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<\/p>\n<p>18 JANUAR 2004, SONNTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Elite &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p>\u201eDas Gleichma\u00df hat Vorteile. Ein Studienabschluss in Flensburg ist offiziell genauso viel wert wie einer in Konstanz. Und jeder deutsche Universit\u00e4tsprofessor darf sich als Spitzenforscher f\u00fchlen. International jedoch ebnete die verordnete Egalit\u00e4t den Universit\u00e4ten den Weg in die Mittelm\u00e4\u00dfigkeit. Insofern ist die Analyse der selbst ernannten Bildungsvordenker der SPD richtig: Keine einzige deutsche Hochschule kann im Wettbewerb mit dem Dutzend amerikanischer Spitzenuniversit\u00e4ten von Berkeley bis Yale bestehen.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n<p>Martin Spiewak, \u201eElite\u201c, Die Zeit, 03\/2004.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00505: (Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.) 19 JANUARY 2004, MONDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY. Elite &#8211; 5 \u201cFor that reason, the research elite of the world is moving to the United States. 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