"From front to rear botch".

Marius Reiser no longer wants to be university lecturers. In protest against bachelor and master, he abandoned his professorship. In the interview, says the theologian, Mainz, why he is the "abolition of the university" looks close - and what Mahatma Gandhi has to do with it.

 

Uniblogs: Professor Reiser, lacks the German university teachers in Courage?

Reiser: Yes, without doubt. They can be things like that they do not have to put up. You're just unresisting, as with a diploma without a degree not abolished, by which we are envied around the world. This lack of any understanding to me.

Uniblogs: You sound as if it were the downfall of the West, not the
Reform programs.

Reiser: It's about the abolition of the university.

Uniblogs: Is it not something?

Reiser: Not in the slightest. If we abolish all this, what makes a university, then it creates the university itself. The University has been autonomous, and their goal was education. Now it will depend on the requirements of the economy. It's no longer about education, but only for training. The student can not even choose which priorities he wants to study, but he gets, like in school, all the contents of hair and are small in a
pressed tight timetable. This is the end of academic freedom. That I will not participate.

UNIblogs 2 / 2009

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Know yourself
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Uniblogs: The transition to Bachelor and Master degrees will be comparable across Europe and the Uni-change in the study easier. These are lofty goals.

Reiser, the stand but only on paper. If we really wanted to have comparable qualifications, we should all universities the same shape. All disciplines should be the same and the same staffing levels have, over the need to exactly the same, boring content taught. A terrible idea! And University of change through the bachelor's degree even more difficult, because the lesson plans so rigid and narrow. Many students will be given to the great duty program is no longer trusted, while studying abroad to change.

Uniblogs: It is the graduate courses that you want to save, but they are often already heavily verschult.

Reiser: You are particularly at colleges. There is indeed in order. But please not at the universities, where an elite education in science should be exciting. Science is, think independently, argue and judges to learn, not given to studying for exams timpani.

Uniblogs: Do not believe it wise student will create left and right of the prescribed lectures interesting content broke?

Reiser: It is much, much harder. Because it is also constantly tests in which the substance is again queried. Thus also for university teachers is a huge administrative burden and correction. Personally, I would remain in such a system, little time for thorough research.

Uniblogs: What do you want to, after 18 years at the university, will live?

Reiser: I am a Undemanding man, I have no car and no TV. I will use the time to select a book to review, and hope that I have one or the other can speak.

Uniblogs: Are you disappointed that none of your colleagues followed your path?

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Reiser: No, I would ask of anyone. Many of those who positively responded to my announcement, must support a family or have other commitments. But incomprehensible to me that some colleagues do not even resist, without which they could afford any risk. Previously, when the call came on a short-term courses or examinations must have the dean back, we needed this time and would give notice when we are finished. This would have the absurd new regulations for a long time on ice can be. Instead, today, but all requests will be immediately followed obediently.

Uniblogs: You have the students called upon to defend and to Mahatma Gandhi recalls. Was it not also a small number?

Reiser: Gandhi, I have only mentioned because of the methods with which a democratic opposition was possible. The students gradually recognize themselves, what to expect and that they are forced to a degree, with a little bit later they can start. With a Bachelor's degree, they may not even be primary school teachers!

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Uniblogs: With your departure from the university but also give you the opportunity to consider the weaknesses of the system for the benefit of your students must be in balance.

Reiser: To improve, there is nothing. The system is from the front to rear botch. If at least until a pilot done and the system at selected universities for a few years would have tried, then we would have noticed that it does not work. But not even this is happening. Now an entire generation of students pay for the foreseeable future must be chaos. I decided to not participate.