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14th place in Education Monitor - Is the education system in Saxony really that bad?

14th place in Education Monitor – Is the education system in Saxony really that bad?

Magdeburg and Halle cannot be compared to Dresden

especially in East Germany In fact, Axel Germann says, conditions are very balanced. The great distance to Saxony can be explained, among other things, by the fact that the education systems have developed differently. “Take for example the research orientation in Saxony: you have a large university with a franchise like TU Dresden – professors receive third-party funding of 190,000 euros per year, and in Saxony-Anhalt that average is only 120,000. There are simply university sites with great culture. It cannot be compared to sites like Magdeburg and Halle.”

This factor is also included in the Education Monitor, which was created by the German Institute of Economics, and specifically from an economic education perspective. On the other hand, if only the school quality point is considered, then Saxony-Anhalt ranks fourth.

The head of the study, Axel Plünnecke, refers to this first when asked to rate Saxony-Anhalt’s place in the rankings. However, the big challenge is that you have a lot of school dropouts. and for one Progress Of the pupils simply lack teachers. “There is a big problem finding young teachers because many of the older teachers are now retired,” explains Axel Plonicki.