Everything must go, but DALLI.

A little pressure from above, and you open the floodgates: 6.5 million euros from tuition fees, the Niederrhein University gebunkert - intern "reservoir" called. Under pressure from the policy it must spend the money now. And suddenly it is extremely hectic at.

 

At the Lower School on Tuesday, it was somewhat uncomfortable. Like the ants, so you can hear from the college, the technical staff to be confused Departements be gone. Through the course of procurement wuselten some applications in which the ink was not yet dried.

Hochschule Niederrhein
Hochschule Niederrhein: Idyllic located in the "reservoir" of tuition fees

Reason for such non-academic Do: There must be money spent. A lot of money. And as quickly as possible. The best yesterday.

Large numbers running through the corridors and laboratories. Two million, almost two and a half million euros will be ringing out. Instruction from the very top. So there was a mechanical engineering professor on Tuesday morning, easily irritated in the lecture hall: 800,000 euros to spend, he should, from now on the same, and yet he knew not how, the professors confessed his students.

Previously know the universities in Germany "December fever" very good: Just prior to year end will be all kinds of major expenditures are made in laboratory equipment or new desk chairs ordered, just so the money is not forfeited and the next financial year the budget is not reduced. At the Krefeld School is now the "June fever" broke out. It is a surplus in the budget of 6.5 million from tuition fees, accrued over the past two years.

"Our reservoir is filled with students of the money in the pot-filled environment of the rectorate also mentioned. Money, the Rector Hermann Ostendorf
einbehielt deliberately and for its personnel in the coming years.

Command: locks to go with the money

East Village problem: For some weeks outraged his creative and highly proactive financial management not only the student representatives, but also the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Science. On Friday the minister responsible rüffelte Andreas Pinkwart (FDP) and Niederrhein the three other universities, they are obliged to gebunkerte fees Euros
immediately run - until mid-June should be clear where the money is "timely" to be invested. Tenor: "Students are not money in the savings asset."

In a crisis meeting on Monday, to the Rector Hermann Ostendorf and his Vice-President for Teaching Michael Lent deans had loaded, it was a question: locks up, and away with the money before we have the ministry at the end takes away - because that was exactly Pinkwart Spokesman universities threatened.

The ultimatum Pinkwart brief explains the turmoil in the corridors, because the rectorate was probably the pressure directly to the deans on. "Within this year" would have to spend millions to be, said Michael Lent blogs ONLINE.

"Until the evening hours," would have management and deans on Monday together to eat, said Lent. On Tuesday, the Vice-President then spoke with the individual departments in detail about where the funds can be used.

Merry deans, students unfrohe

From the sudden fireworks investment benefit mainly the laboratories of the technical, organic and physical chemistry, as well as the Department of process engineering, robotics and instrumental analysis. "Happy" had been the Deans, "that the money we have now ran," said Lent.

Student representatives from the University criticized the bunkers of the student-million since the beginning of the year and call for transparency. But since a recent official talks on 15 May there was radio silence between management and students who complained of Asta Vice-Chairman Robert Kramer.

Also from the crisis talks on Monday, the students learned only from "Rheinische Post". The behavior of the University Leadership Kramer calls "strange". The students stated that they had expected. As the surplus of 6.5 million euros uncovered, they called on the Rector at the East Village, but their fees in half - if he did not know where to put the money.

But the student request for a fee reduction is not achieved by the vote in the Senate. Just as at other universities is approaching, so keep it on the Lower Rhine: What about the students use their Euros say is not relevant. The ministerial power word on the other hand, a higher education management is not simply ignore it - a Pinkwart-acclamation, and it starts to empty the reservoir.