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Starting in the school year 2010/2011, uniform standards of education will be introduced for sixth form students throughout Germany (years 12 to 13). This was decided by the Conference of German Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs at the end of October 2007. But what exactly are uniform educational standards, and why are they being introduced?edasi ...

In order to prevent children from accessing the wrong sites in their surfing forays there are special search engines for children.edasi ...

The East German past has been awarded a very much more prominent place in German history lessons over the last few years, with the main focus switching to the history of daily life.edasi ...

German universities are particularly worried about losing some of their best young talent to a brain drain. Klaus Wehrle, one of the ones who came back, talks of the charms and risks of an academic career.edasi ...

An interview with the author, Herbert W. Franke, on science fiction and the often amazingly thin line between fiction and reality.edasi ...

On behalf of the German federal and regional governments it distributes more than EUR 1.2 billion to all kinds of research projects every year. Those who wish to receive funding have to participate in a sophisticated and globally recognised review process. Here we give a look behind the scenes of Germany’s largest funding organisation.edasi ...