A bit of fun should be.

Evaluations and rankings professors often endure. Once a year they turn the tables and vote: Who is the strongest science minister who schwächelt in office? An East German politician gets the title "Minister of the Year" - for the second time

 

In grades have a lot of professors in Germany routine notes in cash as well. Whether at university rankings in magazines or in teaching, research or in the Excellence Initiative - the verdict on their work, they must make. The taste is not all professors, especially if precisely the formation of competition policy and "profiling" fuel that would otherwise halt as a "solidarity pact" or job cuts as "higher optimization concept" sell.

Sometimes professors also want to enjoy themselves up. This invites the German University Association (DHV) since 2004, it expressly. The "Minister rankings, members of the Association of University Professors and all who are otherwise interested in science policy, on the strengths and weaknesses of the science minister judge. And distribute school.

The official final result of the current rankings: Jan-Hendrik Olbertz from Saxony-Anhalt as the winner goes through the goal. That was the party-less science minister in 2007 to succeed once, then sparked him of 2008 Brandenburg colleague Johanna Wanka from. Now they have again swapped places. Both were with 2.0 and 2.1 good grades.

Ex oriente lux

All other ministers have had to deal with grades in the range of 3 or significantly worse modest. Endnotes Bremer is this science Senator Renate Jürgens-Pieper - with a grade of 5.2. It also is responsible for the school, must deal with Bremen
blamablen PISA results mucking around and knows the lush "poor" in their testimony DHV already from the previous year.

The East German Science Minister consistently performed well, with the exception of Henry Tesch from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to rank 10th Passable notes were also Joachim Rippel (Saarland) and Doris Ahnen (Rheinland-Pfalz) places on the three o'clock-four o'clock. The relatively unemployed Federal Research Minister Annette Schavan threaded with a grade of 3.6 in the middle.

Serious evaluation is the Internet survey is not, however, more sophisticated professors Bespaßung. This is also difficult to explain how the findings meteoric rise of
Hamburger always smart ex-Senator Jörg Dräger: Three years in a row, he was the last place in the new rankings suddenly the sixth. It was in 2008 Dräger practically nothing more shape because the citizenship of elections already held at the end of February. What it is now the horse of the year makes? Rätselhaft - perhaps it was simply grateful for his departure.

Mood rather than a serious evaluation

Berlin's Senator Jürgen Zöllner again lost two places and is now ranked 8th In the years 2005 and 2006 he was still Class Primus, waltete serving as science minister at the time, however, in Rhineland-Palatinate, before his cross to the far more difficult terrain capital had to prove.

The Association of Universities, the vote even more than mood for serious work as a witness and is also free space for comments. A participant suggested that the Federal Ministry of Research "in view of the superiority of country-level logically conclude." About the voting winner Olbertz quoted one participant: "The Minister despite tense situation in the country real interest and knows what he's talking about!"

At the other ministers will not be taken by. The motto of the Saxon Science Minister Eva-Maria Strange loud: "We have no money, but together we have created," threw her against a participant. Harsh criticism at the Bremen Senator: "Mrs Jürgens-Pieper is largely in the ideologies of the seventies at home."