Caught in the diploma.

In theory, the mobility of students is highly encouraged. In practice they often fail in the bureaucracy - especially in courses with a diploma or master's degree. The complaints about a harrowing hurdles are getting louder.

 

At the German universities are piling up the complaints of diploma and master's students who are against their fellow students in the new bachelor and master degree programs to feel penalized. Change of subject or university experience traditionalists such as hurdles, sometimes they even deny the government the next step.

The rule: From 2010, new students only in the graded system of Bachelor and Master may begin. Therefore, consider the universities already very carefully whether and how many contaminated sites in the form of changers aufhalsen they want. "What happens here is a form of discrimination against students in the old courses," laments John Ludwig Asta from the University of Cologne, where even professionals uniinterne change almost impossible.

Meanwhile, close nationwide over two-thirds of all courses with bachelor or master's from. Some colleges have rules for higher kulante semester, but the chance for a change nor a precise pass Altstudiengang to be found, will always be lower: In Lower Saxony, 91 percent have already been restructured, 87 and in Berlin in Brandenburg 84 percent.

It is debatable whether the reformist joyful Unis überhaupt Altstudenten may be sidelined. The enrollment freeze is in the view of the Cologne Fachanwalts Christian Pearwood "only for the first semester." Rejection higher semester had "no legal basis."