Berlin's universities : More students for the teacher

It goes on: The number of students taking a primary school study, eight within five years almost tripled. A significant increase of almost 50 percent, there are also students for teaching in middle school and high school. This is shown by current Figures of the Senate administration for science, who will present the governing mayor Michael Müller (SPD) on this Tuesday in the Senate.

According to the daily mirror, have taken, therefore, in the winter semester of 2018/19, more than 3100 students, a teacher, a bachelor's degree in Berlin: Almost 1000 future primary school teachers and over 2000 future high school and secondary school teachers. This was possible because the four universities have expanded their capacity significantly. Little movement there is, however, the teacher training for vocational schools: The existing 340 places to study are only used about half.

The Problem of the unused places to study in the master's degree for all Teaching positions: In the basic education area could be occupied in the autumn of 340 of 630 study places. In the secondary school area 300 of the 1300 seats were almost free, and in the case of vocational teachers, only a third of the capacity was exhausted. This difference between supply and demand has to do – particularly in the field of basic education, so that for many years had hardly Bachelor's study courses. Therefore, the candidate for the master's program are now missing.

a cause for concern on the Ruling, the Exodus of trained master's graduates

The Senate has obliged the universities to not only provide more study spaces available, but per year at least 2000 students of teacher training lead to the conclusion. For its capacity expansion at the teachers education, the universities receive alone, in 2019, more than twelve million Euro.

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of concern to the Governing mayor, who is also a science Senator, the migration of fully-trained master's graduates. "We will examine whether the establishment can help to inspire teachers for Berlin," he had announced in December in the daily mirror and for the first time, a Signal in this direction. Since then, the debate is re-kindled.

There is no Berlin escape of young teachers, proclaims the education-policy spokeswoman for the Left

For a Surprise, the education-policy spokeswoman for the Left party, Regina Kittler made on Monday: she proclaimed that "there is no Berlin Exodus of young teachers". The document you referred to the responses of educational administration to your recent request, according to which it had given in February, over 1000 applicants for a traineeship, but only 545 were taken.

The explanation for this discrepancy provided the educational administration: The interested parties would have applied also in other länder in Germany, and left Berlin as soon as they got elsewhere of a commitment.

changed The answer on the exciting question of kittler's, how many teachers since 2013, a year in the schools of Brandenburg and other Federal States, the education administration for the time being, guilty.

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