(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below.)<\/p>\n
28 AUGUST 2006, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
Revenge of the German Bureaucrats (Naturally Not at the Technical University of Munich) \u2013 10<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this way, the principle of mobility among European universities could actually be brought to a halt. At least this is the warning issued by various business associations that are the natural allies of the TU-9 and normally support anything those universities want to do. Siemens Manager Frank Stefan Becker, who is responsible for matters of education for the German central association of electrotechnical and electronics industries, says, \u2018If the engineers say that they can\u2019t handle the workload, because it\u2019s too demanding, then the medical students will start saying the same thing, and then the physics students, and so on.\u2019 That seems logical: if you define an elite by the number of credits its members have to carry, then everybody wants to belong to that elite, and for the same reason. Sascha Hermann of the leading association of German engineers says that any sort of \u2018understanding\u2019 for what students have to achieve is questionable: \u2018Handing out more credits for the effort a given course of studies requires doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that it\u2019s more demanding. Maybe it\u2019s just badly taught\u2019.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: Jan-Martin Wiarda, \u201eDer lange Weg zum Master\u201c, Die Zeit, 10.08.2006, 33\/2006.<\/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 “I 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.” – James Baldwin<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/<\/p>\n —————————————————————————-<\/p>\n 28 AUGUST 2006, MONTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Rache der deutschen B\u00fcrokraten (nat\u00fcrlich nicht an der Technischen Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen) \u2013 10<\/p>\n \u201eDoch genau so k\u00f6nnte es kommen, warnen sogar Unternehmerverb\u00e4nde, die von den neun Hochschulen gew\u00f6hnlich zu ihren nat\u00fcrlichen Verb\u00fcndeten gez\u00e4hlt werden. \u00bbWenn die Ingenieure sagen, sie kommen mit dem Workload nicht hin, weil sie so hohe Anforderungen stellen, wollen die Mediziner nicht nachstehen, als N\u00e4chstes kommen die Physiker, und so geht es immer weiter\u00ab, sagt der Siemens-Manager Frank Stefan Becker, der im Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie f\u00fcr Ausbildungsfragen zust\u00e4ndig ist. Klingt logisch: Definiert man Elite \u00fcber die Zahl der Credits, wollen alle dazugeh\u00f6ren. Dabei sei dieses Verst\u00e4ndnis von Leistung fragw\u00fcrdig, sagt Sascha Hermann vom Verein Deutscher Ingenieure: \u00bbMehr Leistungspunkte bedeuten nicht zwangsl\u00e4ufig, dass der Studiengang anspruchsvoller ist. Vielleicht wird der Stoff nur schlechter vermittelt.\u00ab\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n (Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n Quelle: Jan-Martin Wiarda, \u201eDer lange Weg zum Master\u201c, Die Zeit, 10.08.2006, 33\/2006.<\/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 muss man 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":" (Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below.) 28 AUGUST 2006, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY Revenge of the German Bureaucrats (Naturally Not at the Technical University of Munich) \u2013 10 \u201cIn this way, the principle of mobility among European universities could actually be brought to a halt. 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