Education policy
Education policy is policy that aims at designing, legitimacy and administration of education.
Education policy in Germany
Also part of the education policy in Germany, the management of schools and colleges, which is mainly carried out at country level of the ministries of education. Increasingly, educational goals in pre-school care can be defined. The responsibility for pre-school care is typically not yet been settled in the education, but the social ministries.
According to the constitution is the education policy, the federal states ( cultural sovereignty ). This has led to substantial differences between the education systems in Germany partly greatly between states. The regular minister of education conferences attempting to regulate the most important things uniform. These include the duration of the school holidays and their scheduling and the allocation of a school year. There are differences regarding the curriculum, the final examinations at the school (see also: Central High School ), the number of years of schooling ( 12 or 13 years), the subjects offered, the types of schools (see also: comprehensive school ) and during the transition from primary school to secondary school (see also: orientation stage ). Occasionally there are also differences within a state: Thus, in most of Baden -Württemberg's first foreign language is English, only along the border with France is French.
The situation is similar at the universities: There are differences especially regarding the financing and possible tuition. In this area of higher education policy, were attempts by the federal government, to curtail the formation sovereignty of the country in recent years, not least forbidden by the Federal Constitutional Court ( see, eg, junior professorship ). Remains controversial and the role are allowed to take the European Union and its institutions in matters of education policy and is settled as at the international level agreements (such as the Euro Europe) or agreements (eg the Bologna process) on the policy the countries retroactive.
Since the Federal States are responsible for the payment of teachers and professors, as well as the construction of school buildings, these areas often also reflect the current financial situation of the state.
Until the entry into force on 1 September 2006 federalism reform added to the Standing Conference also served as the Bund -Länder Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion of the coordination of the educational policies of the 16 states.
About Founded in 1994, the Centre for Higher Education Development shall exercise the Bertelsmann Foundation considerable influence on the German educational policy.
The UN Education Officer Vernor Muñoz exercised in February 2006, criticizing the lack of equal opportunities in the German education policy, education is of social origin more dependent than in most other developed countries in Germany. Muñoz also criticized federalism in education policy.