9 OCTOBER 2007, TUESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
And Lead Us Not into Temptation, but Deliver Us from the Past \u2013 and at the Technical University of Munich? \u2013 1<\/p>\n
\u201cJan-Hendrik Olbertz, Christian Democrat and Minister of Education in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, has a reputation as one of the most knowledgeable of the German politicians specializing in education. But when the term \u2018Capacity Edict\u2019 (German, \u2018Kapazitaetsverordnung\u2019) is heard, Olbertz is caught short. He says, \u2018I want to be honest about this. Even I don\u2019t completely understand what it means.\u2019<\/p>\n “The apparent simplicity of this off-putting, bureaucratic term \u2013 which some even regard as a kind of verbal monstrosity in German \u2013 actually disguises the bewildering complexity of what it describes. The so-called \u2018Cap Edict\u2019 is an especially gruesome relic of the process of expansion that German education underwent in the nineteen-seventies. It is a piece of old-fashioned centralized planning that has somehow made it into the modern era of the \u2018excellence initiative\u2019 and the education reforms that the EU agreed on at Bologna.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: Jan-Martin Wiarda, \u201eDie fiese Formel,\u201c Die Zeit, 20 September 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like someone who has been attacked and injured by a group of thugs. You forgive the thugs, but at the same time you have to warn other people about them.\u201d \u2013 George Sand<\/p>\n \u201cI love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.\u201d – James Bald<\/em>win<\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n 9 OKTOBER 2007, DIENSTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Und f\u00fchre uns nicht in Versuchung, sondern erl\u00f6se uns von der Vergangenheit \u2013 und an der Technischen Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen? \u2013 1<\/p>\n \u201eJan-Hendrik Olbertz (CDU), Kultusminister von Sachsen-Anhalt, gilt als einer der versiertesten Bildungspolitiker im Land. Doch wenn das Wort \u00bbKapazit\u00e4tsverordnung\u00ab f\u00e4llt, wird Olbertz kurz ruhig. Dann sagt er: \u00bbIch will ehrlich sein. Bis in den letzten Winkelzug verstehe ich die auch nicht.\u00ab Es ist ein Wortunget\u00fcm, dessen b\u00fcrokratisch-abschreckender Klang noch eine Untertreibung ist f\u00fcr die verworrene Komplexit\u00e4t, die es umschreibt: Die sogenannte KapVO ist ein besonders grausames Relikt der Bildungsexpansion der Siebziger, ein St\u00fcck Planwirtschaft, das es bis in die Gegenwart von Exzellenzinitiative und Bologna-Reform geschafft hat.\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n (Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n Quelle: Jan-Martin Wiarda, \u201eDie fiese Formel,\u201c Die Zeit, 20.09.2007.<\/p>\n \u201eIch f\u00fchle mich wie eine Person, die von einer Gruppe Schl\u00e4ger angegriffen und verletzt wird. Man vergibt die Schl\u00e4ger, aber man muss andere Menschen vor ihnen warnen.\u201c \u2013 George Sand<\/p>\n \u201eIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/<\/p>\n ===========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 9 OCTOBER 2007, TUESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY And Lead Us Not into Temptation, but Deliver Us from the Past \u2013 and at the Technical University of Munich? \u2013 1 \u201cJan-Hendrik Olbertz, Christian Democrat and Minister of Education in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, has a reputation as one of the most knowledgeable of the German politicians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-munich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}