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Saxony is at the top in education in Germany – Bremen is at the bottom

According to a study, Saxony and Bavaria have the best education systems in Germany.

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Saxony is at the top in education in Germany – Bremen is at the bottom

According to a study, Saxony and Bavaria have the best education systems in Germany. Saxony is slightly ahead, as the business-related “Initiative New Social Market Economy” (INSM) announced on Wednesday in Berlin. This commissioned the Cologne Institute of the German Economy (IW) to analyze and evaluate the education systems of the 16 federal states. The authors of the study each examined 13 areas, including school quality, childcare conditions, research orientation and digitization.

According to the researchers, Saxony is in the lead, among other things, because of the very good funding infrastructure and school quality. For example, the students did very well in school performance tests. In the overall ranking, Bavaria is followed by Thuringia and Hamburg. Saxony-Anhalt takes the penultimate place.

According to the study, Bremen has the worst education system. Among other things, the Hanseatic city has a very high school dropout rate. At 8.3 percent, this was well above the national average of 5.8 percent in 2020. The poor performance in performance tests also contributed to the poor overall rating.

In the field of digitization, however, the authors of the study see Bremen in first place, ahead of all other federal states. According to the study, the city-state "already uses digital media on a daily basis relatively frequently in school lessons." WLAN is also relatively readily available in schools.

Bavaria takes second place in digitization, and Baden-Württemberg third. Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg bring up the rear. The scientists write that the availability of fast WLAN in schools and the frequency with which digital media are used in lessons are in need of improvement in Berlin's neighboring country. In addition, the research performance in the field of digitization is below average.

In order to achieve more educational and thus equal opportunities, the researchers at the IW are calling for comparative work to be carried out at all schools and in all age groups. In this way, the extent of the learning loss could be determined systematically and post-qualification programs could be developed on this basis. In order to further advance the digitization of schools, 20,000 additional IT positions would also have to be provided.

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