Children Bachelor enemy.

The Bologna reform makes studying parents' lives: attendance, streamlined program that constantly tests - that an infant has no understanding. The system allows students verschulte too little time to get to the little ones to worry about.

 

In the town of Giessen Pohlheim are the differences between old and new, visible in the smallest space. There is a flat two families. In both families the mother and father to study in both there is a small child. But does the daily life of the WG both parties sometimes extreme.

Heiko Meyer
A flat, two families, two programs of study: David and Kristin Rust Lütgenau with son Janusz, Jan and Sarah Benner Kohlhof-Kohlhof with daughter Mia Lena in Pohlheim in Giessen

Family One: Sarah-Kohlhof Benner, 25, is studying primary school teaching profession and Jan Kohlhof, 28, computer science, to state and diploma. Their one-year daughter Mia Lena have them in the day Lida Maleki housed.

Family Two: Lütgenau David, 24, studied special schools and Kristin Rust, 23, social sciences, both in the new bachelor degree program. Her seven-month-old son also serves Janusz Lida Maleki.

Leave only two semesters Pack

The huge difference: While Sarah and Jan's services Lida really only need sporadic, Kristin and David would be without them aufgeschmissen. They have the new power under Bologna.

Bologna, bachelor, that is, a tight timetable to follow, which means attendance in many modules, vacation semester often only in two pack because cross-semester seminars, ongoing trials. All things associated with the time requirements of an infant's difficult to bring them into compliance are.

So Kristin and David need to support their housemates and the childminder. But sometimes you can find anyone to them Janusz decreases. "Fortunately, most professors have no objection to a child in the lecture."

Similarly, it currently takes many of the approximately 123,000 student parents in Germany - certainly the 15 percent of them to educate their child alone. The new turbo-study with his Bachelor's and Master's degrees, it face major organizational problems. In the latest survey of the student were almost a quarter of respondents indicated that they are not once again for a child during the study that would determine.

"First child with me in mid-30 would be too late '

It says Sarah is "the study is actually
a good time for children's war. "She was with her study" time-flexible than in the job. "Moreover, they feel fresh enough for the demands of the parents' existence:" My first child in mid-30 to get me would be too late. "

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The policy aims to graduate more children. Students are entitled to the Federal Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) introduced Elterngeld, albeit usually only at the minimum rate of 300 euros per month. And who Bafög relates receives additional 113 Euro for the first and 85 euros for each additional child. In addition, student parents may be entitled to housing benefit. In some German states, Bavaria, for instance, can they exemption from tuition fees apply.

But the shortage is covered elsewhere in size, since it is the students like the professionals: There are not enough care for the kids. Only 5500 places nationwide offer the student in kindergarten or in cribs. In many cases, who will provide a grab wants to wait months or years.

Part-time studies? Not really planned

Janke Reuschel, 29, has one of the coveted places for their three year old daughter get Marlia. But when the lone social economics student from Hamburg during the evening or on weekends or major events due Marlia is sick, it must be a friend for help. "The Bachelor, you can so the events are not more to choose," she explains. Janke has applied for part-time studies - the curriculum of new courses to take part, but hardly the end Zeitler consideration.

Sometimes there is a lack of the universities to understand the constraints, which must obey their parents: "One of my professors said that I should be studying rather leave when I am not of the normal requirements can adapt," says the student Lehramt Barbara bounce from Giessen. At a place in the Uni-Kita waiting in vain so far, only 18 children can come there. In doing so, the University of Giessen the certificate "family-oriented institution."

Still want to get the student to the parents of adversity does not get under and somehow organize their daily lives. Like the aspiring literary scholar Anne Küchler, 27, in Hamburg. Since a single year is Anne, looked her son Simon, but alternately with her ex-boyfriend.

"I'm happy, not just at home having to be," says Küchler. Your old student lives they do not miss. "Now I live in two worlds that collide. That makes life but just beautiful." She laughs. "And fun anyway."