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Berlin | The Education and Science Union is demanding a clear line from the Chancellor and the Prime Minister as to which development of the infection rate will limit classroom teaching in schools. “The GEW urgently appeals to Chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime ministers of the federal states to make a clear announcement when schools start changing lessons,” said GEW boss Marlis Tepe to the “editorial network Germany” (Wednesday editions). “If you want to keep schools open as long as possible, you need a concept of how you want to ensure this – before reality overtakes you,” added the teachers’ union.
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So far, politicians have not worked so well that it is possible to switch smoothly from classroom teaching to digital learning. The victims are already disadvantaged children and young people who are even further left behind. “The guideline for all decisions must be to reconcile the right to education and health and infection protection for teachers, students and their parents,” she said.
“The guidelines for the measures in the school should be the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute,” demanded Tepe. The GEW proposes a five-point program for this: “From the 5th grade onwards, the social distance requirement of 1.5 meters must apply,” suggested Tepe first. “For this purpose, classes would have to be divided and additional rooms rented in youth hostels, for example.”
Secondly: “In order to ventilate the classrooms regularly, the ventilation concept of the Federal Environment Agency applies. If the specifications cannot be implemented, appropriate filter systems must be installed immediately.” Third, Tepe called for the accelerated acquisition of digital devices for teachers and students.
A data protection-compliant digital infrastructure would have to be created across the board and IT system administrators had to be employed. “In addition, the federal states must offer immediate digital training for teachers.” Fourthly, risk analyzes should be carried out for workplaces at school, Tepe demanded. Fifthly, in the interests of transparency, the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs should realize its announcement as quickly as possible to publish weekly statistics on the number of infected teachers and students and those who have been quarantined.
Only a few students have a chance of lending a laptop
The lack of devices for students at home continues to be one of the biggest problems with distance learning in the corona crisis. That is what 59 percent of the school authorities say, writes the “Handelsblatt”, citing a survey on behalf of an IT equipment provider. To this end, 100 school authorities nationwide were questioned.
Only around half have so far used the federal government’s additional funding program for laptops for schoolchildren, for which the federal government provided 500 million euros in June. To date, only 14 percent of pupils have been able to receive a device from their school if lessons are moved back home, according to the survey. The problem of insufficient qualification of teachers is apparently even greater: 63 percent of the school authorities state that they lack the know-how to use software for digital learning and video conferencing.
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11/25/2020 | 09:18:46 am
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Cologne / Düsseldorf | NRW School Minister Yvonne Gebauer informed today about the situation at the NRW schools in the corona pandemic. She stated that you and the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs, which met on Friday, would adhere to the principle of comprehensive face-to-face teaching and that this was and remains her first choice. School-specific, if the pandemic situation requires it, a change between face-to-face and distance teaching is possible. This must be decided by the school administrators and the local health authorities.
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11/23/2020 | 4:49:47 pm
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Cologne | The state of North Rhine-Westphalia will start the Christmas holidays two days in advance. In Germany, more than 3,000 schools are no longer in regular operation and there are 223 infected students at 116 Cologne schools and 89 infected staff at 75 schools. On the current situation and the discussion about schools in the second wave of the Corona crisis.
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11/12/2020 | 08:32:44 am
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Berlin | Last year, only one in four professorships in Germany (25.6 percent) was held by a woman. This comes from data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), which the Left MP Sabine Zimmermann has evaluated and on which the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” reports. Accordingly, women were only represented by less than a third (31.9 percent) of the habilitations.
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