The largest specialist fair for teaching and learning, ‘didacta’ – The Education Trade Fair will be held in Hanover from 20 to 24 February 2018. Around 70,000 visitors are expected to visit the fair where over 800 exhibitors will present their latest products and inform guests about trends and innovations in the world of education...
According to a study conducted by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, there will be deficit of around 35,000 teachers in primary schools by 2025. It is important that well-considered, short-term measures are enacted now in order to address this shortfall. Approximately 105,000 new primary teachers must be employed by 2025; of these 60,000...
A study released by PwC in February 2018, titled ‘The use of electronic books in German schools’, was based on an online poll of 1,000 German citizens over 18 years old, which examined the wider use of electronic books in Germany. In response to questions enquiring about the use of electronic books in German schools, 53 per cent of...
Researchers from Bielefeld University discovered large discrepancies between the number of teaching hours allocated to political education in the lower years of grammar schools across different federal states. The study ‘ Ranking Politische Bildung 2017 ' (2017 Ranking of Political Education) was the first of its kind. During...
LEARNTEC – leading trade fair for digital learning The LEARNTEC convention will be held in Karlsruhe from 30 January to 1 February 2018 and is centred on the theme ‘Education as the driver of digitisation’. The 26th LEARNTEC convention will address fascinating topics such as: • OER, informal and self-guided...
Since 2016 the Bertelsmann Stiftung has been compiling an empirical database through its study ‘ Monitor Digitale Bildung ’, which comprehensively and representatively illustrates the status of digital learning in a range of education fields in Germany. The study’s third report was published in 2017, and focuses on digital...
As part of a longitudinal study into health behaviour and accident occurrence in school-age children (GUS) the Research Centre of Demographic Change (FZDW) at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences annually surveys 10,000 pupils from 14 federal states in approximately 150 secondary schools. Year 7 pupils were questioned...
Die Fragen zum Umgang mit dem Holocaust stellen sich in jedem Land im jeweiligen nationalen Kontext. Jedes Land hat aufgrund seiner eigenen Geschichte und seiner Beziehung zur Vergangenheit eine andere Antwort darauf. Neben dem nationalen Kontext beeinflusst auch das Zielpublikum die didaktischen und methodischen Herangehensweisen....
The German education system has been under fire for many years. The key criticisms concern exhausted teachers and lecturers and their unprofessional training. The length and number of placements during the training period are to be increased in order to better prepare trainee teachers for the profession. This will enable student...
On 6 November 2017 the Düsseldorf Research Institute for Social Development (FGW) published its study exploring the perspectives of open education resources (OER) in (socio) economic education in North Rhine-Westphalia and in Germany. The authors of the study, Maximilian Heimstädt and Leonhard Dobusch, evaluated pertinent...