Bachelor students are ticking differently ".

Diploma and master were yesterday, the universities are massively to Bachelor and Master: Overdue or Verschlimmbesserung Awakening? For his doctoral thesis, the political scientist Roland Bloch students surveyed - and sees a trend toward streamlined academics.

 

blogs ONLINE: Mr. Bloch, you have with students at major universities in Berlin and Leipzig as well as small business universities in Vallandar and Oestrich-Winkel spoken in both the old and new courses in the study. Are
Bachelor unlike students or master's degree students?

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Roland Bloch

Roland Bloch conducted as a graduate student interviews to guide the consequences of the Bologna reforms. For his study "Flexible students?" asked the political scientist at the University of Leipzig students, the Humboldt University and the Technical University of Berlin and the EBS and the WHU, both private universities.

Roland Bloch: Obviously, because they have very different structure with the bypass in their studies and more targets must take into account. This is not without influence on the mentality of students. This is increasingly dominated by strategic considerations. To this extent: Yes, bachelor students are ticking differently, they are ticking over all things strategic.

blogs ONLINE: In their study comparing social scientists with students of private business schools. Are career-oriented than ever BWLer common with "normal" Bachelor students?

Bloch: The Business Administration students at the Business School is certainly an extreme type that is not one to one can be transferred. But at the business schools can be a bachelor degree in pure form visit. The practice of students there is not a special case. Many of the reforms to the private universities have long implemented, such as the modularization of the course, the credit scoring system or study-related tests. Even abroad and internships are prestructured and firmly into the integrated study course.

blogs ONLINE: What is the impact on the everyday lives of students?

Bloch: In the old courses students could complete their studies relatively independently plan and decide what intensity and how long they study. In the new courses is significantly regulated, the whole semester is determined. The timetable stipulates how many working hours in each module must be invested. The density test is much higher and must be managed. Besides, the students will still qualify for the profession. This was formerly otherwise. The student Guido example, 17 semester studying business administration at the TU Berlin. Instead internships to make it jobbte during the holidays as a tennis coach abroad. For a student in the new courses such detours would be unimaginable.

blogs ONLINE: Students should not only efficiently and expeditiously study, but also complete internships, international experience and in addition to the studies involved. How do they deal with this expectation pressure?

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Bachelor graduates (in Hamburg): "The uncertainty has increased"

Bloch: From the Social Survey of Student shows how much bachelor students under the
Suffer from pressure to perform. The demand for consulting services is rapidly increasing. The objective of the reform, the students in the organization of the course to help, is misguided. Instead, the uncertainty has increased. The students of business schools to decide, however, already at the beginning of the study for a community service. That also means three years, almost no vacation. An example from my study is Claudia, a student at the European Business School in the fourth semester: She has a bad conscience when it is time for sleep or friends takes place to learn. In the rigorous studies are the only important decisions that students must still cases in which university they spend their semester abroad and with which company they organize their internship.

blogs ONLINE: Because of poor study conditions and bureaucratic barriers to break, many students
her studies. Is the retreading of study because not a necessary step?

Bloch: The fact that something had to do was obvious. But it is hard to imagine how the Bologna reforms, the problems to solve. So far nothing indicates that something is changing. If you have more freedom of choice left, as in American colleges is the norm, we would have the dropout rate may be lower, perhaps. The indebtedness of the study is a German exceptionalism. It was structured, where flexibility should be encouraged. Everything suggests that the reforms are more likely to hinder mobility. Because of the narrowly defined modules and the tight timetable, it is hardly possible, while studying the university to change.

blogs ONLINE: You write that the study of reforms had a general distrust in the ability of the students characterized their studies to organize themselves. Why?

Bloch: The students are under the suspicion that the study be extended unnecessarily. But given the poor care relationships can hardly blame the students alone. Activities besides the studies also contribute their part to training and personality development. Study, leisure and professional training are often not separated. A student organized next to the school or university, others are engaged politically. Straight student of social sciences to find niches in the labor market. This flexible behavior is hampered by the reforms. It is created ambiguity, where ambiguity exists.

blogs ONLINE: One of the students said: "Success is studying for me, a good job to find" - a typical setting?

Bloch: The business schools have this career orientation in any case. Also, the tuition increase the instrumental attitude towards studying. This does not mean that it is just about the amount of the salary goes, it counts even if the job is interesting. Graduates of business schools have to their future not to worry. They assume, on the middle management level in the profession to enter. Students at public universities have this option is usually not. Since it is primarily a question of first entry into the labor market. Therefore, students are also prepared to make further placements, movement, and inadequate employment and payment to be accepted.

blogs ONLINE: Jens Jessen, head of the culture "Time", has students of today accused of adequacy. Keep to the right?

Bloch: students to be ashamed of, the freedom of the student not to use non optimal behavior, goes to the lifestyles of the students passed. In the eighties it was still clearly on the karrieredistanzierten students, where it arrived it did not conform to behave. This one could afford, because college graduates have a job relatively easily found. This so-called alternate-hedonistic milieu among students is certainly gone. The insight that a degree guarantees a job, affects the carefree Study. Instead, we now always have the professional qualifications in the view - often from the first semester. This adjustment goes on the needs of the labor market over. The more you study structured, the more you transported Streamlined and prevents productive detours.