With small-small against the great chaos.

For university graduates was the search in the past year, a torturous waiting game - now threatens another fiasco: Because the Federal Education Minister Schavan late and half-turns, steer universities and candidates on a re-suspended game.

 

For the graduates, which will soon apply for a place to be, it seems like a glimmer of hope: Several universities in Germany unify their dates during the authorization procedure for the winter semester 2009/2010. Students, according to an application for a place in the second week of August of the eleven participating universities to know whether they are adopted or not.

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But in essence it is just a nicely packaged idea. De facto, the universities this year, probably a procurement process to continue in the summer 2008 academic members and also the universities themselves plunged into sheer chaos.

Oblivious promises the University of Hamburg, they will their admission decisions between 7 and 14 August sent, together with the universities in Heidelberg, Munich (LMU), Duisburg-Essen, Kiel, Mainz and Wuppertal, Bonn and Paderborn, and the Free University and the Charité-University Medicine in Berlin. This should be on the multiple applications from graduates to respond. For open-minded student of this university should be a candidate exchange on the internet.

Last summer was the
German university graduates for a nerve-wracking waiting game. Since the universities since the
Dismantling of the Central Unit for places (ZVS) their students tend to choose, many graduates went to play it safe, and seeking to twelve or more universities, often for several subjects. Paradoxically, remained so in spite of a supposed flood of applicants at the end places unused. The universities had to refill several times - the University of Munster had about her after consultation procedure five times running.

Kempen: News authorization "under all the pig"

"Among all the pig" is this procedure complains the president of the Association of Higher Education Bernhard Kempen - and attacked so that a procedure in which the current thrust of the University of Hamburg as good as nothing changes. That in each state vary the admission arrangements and there was no federal law was a "tragedy of federalism," Kempen said in an interview with Hessischer Rundfunk.

Such a federal law as it Kempen calls, but it does not give, is the Federal Education Minister Annette Schavan (CDU). A few months before the new graduates have to decide where and how they choose to study in the fall of applying for admission Schavan recognized subjects but still annoying shortcomings.

Therefore, the Minister invited the competent Minister and representatives of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK) and the ZVS start to week for a crisis summit. Between HRK and ZVS was in January
The dispute escalated over who is the distribution of approximately 300,000 initial semesters best able to organize a central office or at any university for that reason alone.

The only tangible result of the round at the Ministry was the call for universities to rely on a single date for sending the student to some commitments. Then appear the first major universities now use the definition to be sent in mid-August.

The ZVS, the long experience with the distribution and clearing of the flood of students has gathered, the fundamental problems are not resolved. The result of the crisis round Schavan and Minister for the initiative from Hamburg had a "minimal" agreement. Because no comparison of candidates with the approval of the universities took place, was the "problem of multiple applications and not withdrawn," said spokesman Bernhard ZVS Scheer blogs ONLINE.

Nationwide system earlier than 2010

Even without a statutory framework sets Schavan on a nationwide uniform solution for the registration problem. When there is a system type is uncertain. Schavan had for the construction of the system, the Fraunhofer Institute suggested that a computer program for the approval to develop and leveling it at the ZVS in Dortmund should install.

That it for the upcoming winter semester 2009/2010 can not work, was equally clear. By early March, wants to be first minister Schavan now with university representatives from all provinces to some criteria, the new computer system must meet. These points will be in a Pflichtenheft notes.

The current transition process, the ZVS in Dortmund offers admission was chaos in 2008 only a handful of universities, including the LMU Munich and the University of Mainz, have been used. How many universities participate in this year is uncertain, says spokesperson ZVS Scheer. Sign universities could favor until the 20th February.

And the graduates? They will if they are in May and June their Diplomas in hand to check for university places scout - and probably ten to 20 times apply across the Republic, and hope to get a place. Or two. Or more.

The blindfolded, for four days.

Permanent interrogations, the same questions, blindfold and handcuffs: After his release describes the German-Egyptian student Philip Rizk, 27, the four terrible days of his life.

 

The food was good, says Philip Rizk, das least morning and evening, there was bread with cheese or jam, noon rice with chicken or chopped, plus an orange a day. If they were satisfied with him, they took him from the handcuffs, the interrogations.

But they were mostly satisfied not.

Rizk, the German-Egyptian student who knew four days, not sure where he was, and he only knew why they kept him prisoner. Security authorities had him last Friday
arrested after a demonstration, much evidence suggests that there is the domestic secret service agents were.

He is now free again and this Thursday to celebrate his 27th Birthday with his family. What he tells of blogs ONLINE captivity, shows how quickly one in a country like Egypt is the enemy of the state. Enough already, a blog, and to sign hochzuhalten on which is the wrong thing.

Rizk published on his blog
"tabulagaza", which is locked now, reports on the suffering and lives of people in the Gaza Strip. During a protest march at the end of last week he wore a sign: "We have had enough. Open the Rafah Crossing." It's open criticism of Egypt's Middle East policy, a country which borders with the Gaza Strip will open only if Israel agrees.

"We get everything out of you," she threatened him

On the way back to Cairo police stop him and his friends, bring Rizk security forces in a minivan with no license plates away. For what then happens, there are no witnesses, Rizk just talking about it.

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Prior to the arrest: Rizk protesting for the people in the Gaza Strip

So that everything actually took place, as he describes the views that speak of organizations such as Amnesty International. This is also the reports of numerous unofficial sources that do not want to be named out of fear for their families or their jobs. And evidence suggests that even Rizk no religious or political zealots, but a quiet talking, prudent man

Rizk that the following happens: The security forces combine his eyes and put him in handcuffs. You take away his cash, 53 pounds, his cigarettes, his keys and his mobile phone. He does not know where he is detained. But there are always the same two men who asked him in Arabic. They call themselves Melek and Nour. He sees them not only to recognize the voices. "At the very beginning of a knocked me on the head and said: We get everything out, because what's inside," says Rizk.

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First they ask him not according to his blog, says Rizk, not after the demonstration, not according to the documentary, which he on the Gaza Strip turned. "They all wanted to know about my life," says Rizk. You ask about his studies in Germany, the United States and in Cairo. Who knows? With whom has he spoken? Only later is also about his political work. Last time the interrogations hours, times a few minutes. The blindfold him they did not, the handcuffs rare. But if he does not so respond, how they imagine it, then put it back and grab it and do not allow that he is hinsetzt. "I think they wanted to punish me," says Rizk. What, he did not know that they say he may not.

They tortured him, but they barely even let him sleep

The human rights organization Amnesty International is on the third day of captivity a statement issued, an alarm word in the title: Torture. "Prisoners of the security services are particularly vulnerable to torture, especially when they are connected to an unknown place to be kept" as stated in the text.

Torture is not Rizk. "They have done nothing to me physically," he says. But they always repeat it to interrogations, awaken him when he sleeps. Rizk lose the sense of time. "I knew the difference between day and night no more." Once they take him to his apartment, they search in his presence, one of the few moments without a blindfold. "It was the only time that I saw a clock," says Philip, "it was four o 'clock at night." They take his computer with two hard drives, his iPod, his research documents relating to his film.

At the same time through five men in civilian and two security forces in combat suits, armed with machine guns, even the house of Rizk family. An attorney who also worked for Amnesty International, prevents the father also is taken. Rizk older sister Jeannette is it the next day for post Facebook and the international press reported. She and her family have a
global campaign organized supporters.

There are at this time neither an accusation nor a formal accusation against Philip. The family has only detours learned that he was actually arrested. Someone from the American University in Cairo, at the Philip studied security circles has made an unofficial confirmation.

"We know everything about you"

Approximately on the third day, it knows Philip Rizk is no longer they keep him a telephone handset connected to the ear. A new voice asked how his name in Latin letters to write. Again and again he says: "We know everything about you." Now they accuse him alternately to spy for Israel, or as an arms dealer for Hamas to work.

On the fourth day they make it before the election, says Rizk: Either go in an hour, free, or for the rest of his life behind bars sit. He just need to admit documents for foreign governments to have written. That they already knew. But he should say it. "I can tell them nothing other than the truth", which he replied, Rizk says, "I write only for the university, for a few newspapers and on my blog."

Shortly afterwards they blindfold him that give him cigarettes, keys, money and phone. He acknowledged. Once they connect, and his eyes
drive him home. "I did not know why they sent me so suddenly released," he says.

Much suggests that the international attention and the silent pressure of the German Embassy have contributed to it. The family had been arrested shortly after the German Ambassador to the colleagues, which is "seeking clarification" and sought consular access, as a spokeswoman of the Foreign Office in Berlin says. Philip Rizk has two passports, the Egyptian and German.

Anyone who criticizes the government of Egypt and it is doing so publicly like Rizk, risking that tough action will be against him. From bloggers reported arrested several times already, the organization "Reporters without borders", which is also a "Press Freedom Index" was published. On this state rankings Egypt ranks far behind: in 173rd place 146

The organization now calls by the Egyptian government, including the Blogger Dia al-Din Gad release on the same day as Rizk was arrested. He criticized since January 2009 in his blog
"A voice of anger," Egypt's Middle East policy. For security circles is the arrest, according Agenturberichtet been confirmed.

Philip Rizk will continue to engage the people in the Gaza Strip, in which he even two years. "My captivity should not suffer from the distraction of the people there," he says. However, the Egyptian authorities blocked his blog, as well as his e-mail mailboxes. But he did not want to leave. "Only a few days rest, I hope, together with my family." But first he plans for a Thursday afternoon press conference.

"Wait, it was not for the police ?".|| Your patient should not be there: Mainzer medical students treat people who are illegally living in their city, voluntary and free. Actually, there is a reporting of the status of persons, but the would-be doctors do not want to hear the name - they want to help. Â "No police, no, no police." Anna Kremer talks to the phone's earpiece. "There are no problems." Her voice is quiet, the view is concentrated. "Wait, it was not for the police?" That was the question that they almost always be the first hear. The 25-year-old calmed the caller. He is yet to come, names do not play a role, not really. Office hours at the club Medinetz in Mainz. Outside it is dark, 18 clock, a winter Monday. You take care of medical students like Anna Kremer to the care of people without papers. Mahmadou Diol * is several times at the entrance of the Caritas center in Mainz Neustadt passed, in which the Medinetz Sprechstunde offers. I! t is cold, his nose, he has inserted into the collar, the hood over his head and deep into the forehead pulled. He watched the gray courtyard of the house exactly. Before he enters the yard, the Senegalese want to find out who from the center comes out, who goes into it. Whether it maybe the police are expected behind the illuminated glass of milk. Above the entrance is a green shield, in seven languages, it attracts inwards. The offer: health care, anonymous and free. Diol lives with a brother in Mainz. When his asylum application was rejected, it is submerged. Now he has pain, but no residence permit and thus no health insurance. If he had money, he could pay himself a doctor. He is not sure what he should do. "I can not so easily to the doctor." He sought a solution and then the matter inside. But go in, which he dares not, not yet. Those who are not revealed, will get no benefits In Germany alone, between one half and one million people without a residence pe! rmit. But who has no papers, may not become ill. Because Germa! ny is th

Egypt makes Gaza German blogger free.

Four days were Egyptian security forces, the German-Egyptian student Philip Rizk at an unknown location caught. Now the 26-year-old again - by his sister planned protests are still taking place.

 

He was dragged off and hidden, his apartment was searched and his family threatened. Now the nightmare being over. The German-Egyptian student and blogger Philip Rizk is free again. It informed his sister Jeannette ONLINE blogs on early Wednesday morning. Also in the Facebook group in which they are regularly on the development of the case, writes, reads: "Philip is out. It is safe and with his family."

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A spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry in Berlin confirmed blogs ONLINE, Rizk that the previous night had been released. Several micro-bloggers had previously reported on Twitter, including the user who first reported the arrest had Rizk.

According to the Foreign Office had the German embassy in Cairo after the arrest turned Rizk and "tried to clarify." You will Rizk and his family continue to consular assistance when it is desired.

Thus ends for the family of Philip Rizk a time of fear. Rizk, 26, both the German and the Egyptian Passport holders, was on the night of last Friday to Saturday
Egyptian security forces arrested when he returned a demonstration. His family was not where he was locked up why.

Then, in the night from Sunday to Monday, security forces searched the house of Rizk family. "Five men in civilian standing in front of the door," says Jeannette Rizk, sister, "two in Kampfänzügen and machine guns." They were in search of evidence against Philip had presumed them. The security forces found nothing incriminating, but then wanted to bring the father to ask him. Rallied Only a lawyer who also worked for Amnesty International, was able to prevent.

"I suspect, however, that all this was just a Ablenkungsmaneuver," says Rizk blogs Jaennette ONLINE, at the same time, her apartment and her brother have been screened. Philips laptop if they had taken away his iPod, their video camera and two hard drives of Jeannette, then their complete computer backup, and a documentary, as the thesis on the lives of women in Cairo had rotated.

Those who criticized the Egyptian government, lives dangerously

Philip Rizk operates
the blog "tabulagaza". It publishes reports on Palestinian refugees and the Gaza Strip. The topic has long been employed him: he has himself in the Gaza Strip and lived the life of a documentary filmed there. He also supported journalists who cover the spot itself is a picture of the situation wanted, and helped, medicines to Gaza to bring. At the demonstration last Friday, it asked that the Egyptian government the Rafah border crossing to the Gaza Strip will open - open criticism of Egypt's Middle East policy.

Officially, there was no indictment and no charges against Rizk. But several reports have confirmed that Egyptian security official circles that Rizk because of his political engagement was held. The AFP news agency refers to Egyptian authorities, the New York Times quotes one from the General Innenministeriumium who does not want to be named: "It all happened under the Egyptian law. Please contact the Office of the Attorney General."

The crackdown by the security forces is not unusual. Those who are politically active in Egypt, and expresses criticism, lives dangerously. Since 1981, there is the state of emergency. This allows the government of President Husni Mubarak and the security apparatus, a suspect at any time and without any specific allegation arrest. Human rights organizations estimate the number of political prisoners to about 10,000.

For security circles in Cairo was reported on Tuesday, except Rizk was in the past few days, another blogger has been arrested on the Internet solidarity with the Palestinians and called the Egyptian Middle East policy was criticized. He hot Dia al-Din Gad and is already on Friday at his home in the province Gharbija, northwest of Cairo, had been arrested.

According to the Rizk family had domestic intelligence SSI Philip arrested. For prisoners of this authority is the danger to be tortured, according to Amnesty International is particularly high when it is isolated and unknown places to hide. Whether the student Rizk was tortured, is not known. The family wants to express in the afternoon.

Quick family organized a worldwide campaign

Since the arrest, the Rizk quickly become communication professionals. The family brought an impressive Internet campaign roles and mobilized world support. His 29-year-old sister was
Spokesperson for the family, sent photos of their abducted brother and organized demonstrations. The Facebook group "Support and Prayer for the safe release of Philip Rizk" in a few days grew to 6500 members. About Twitter spread from the arrest to release any news around the world, Flickr User
Slideshows tinkered with images of solidarity rallies. In blogs and social networks calls for courses on-line petitions.

The excitement in the international network is not surprising, when the biography of Philip Rizk knows. He is a kind of globalized activist: born in Cyprus, raised in Cairo, where he visited the German school. His father, who runs a small publishing house, came from Egypt, his mother from Germany.

In order to study philosophy, Philip went for a semester in Freiburg, and then with a scholarship in the USA, Wheaton. Now he works on his master's work at the American University in Cairo, he is also dealing with the Gaza conflict. He speaks fluent English, Arabic and German.

For Thursday 27 Birthday of her brother, plans Jeannette Rizk solidarity rallies in several major cities, including Cairo and Berlin. Philip himself there after his release that all the protests take place as planned, it says in Facebook. The demonstrations, however, should be re: Because he no longer sits behind bars, should be held to establish its exemption to draw attention to the Gaza Strip go.

Family launches worldwide campaign of protest.

Egyptian security forces keep him at an undisclosed location. Play Related organize the German-Egyptian blogger Philip Rizk students and an Internet campaign and protest - and get support from around the world.

 

"We have no other option than to make noise," says Jaennette Rizk, 29, currently on its way to the next demonstration. For four days she lives in a state of emergency. Her brother was arrested, searched their apartment, threatened her father. Jaennette Rizk has since become the Spokesperson of their family, has given dozens of interviews, an internet campaign losgetreten.

Her brother, is the German-Egyptian student, blogger and journalist Philip Rizk, 26, in the last night of Friday to Saturday
was arrested, according to the family of Egyptian domestic intelligence service. Since then, neither the family nor Philips friends heard of him.

Philip Rizk operates
the blog "tabulagaza". It publishes reports on Palestinian refugees and the Gaza Strip. The topic has long been employed him: he has himself in the Gaza Strip, lived and a film about the people there turned. He supports journalists who are on the ground even a picture of the position sought, and he has helped to create drugs there.

On the night of last Friday to Saturday was Philip Rizk on the way back from a protest march along with about 15 friends. The police stopped the group and gave them several hours. Finally, officials asked specifically for him, grabbed him and drove in a minivan with no license plates away. His friends tried to follow the car, but police blocked their path. So tell it consistent eyewitness and his sister.

Who makes crash in Egypt, lives dangerously

Now, Jeannette Rizk to lobbyists for the freedom of her brother, and thus become itself to political activist. Because who does crash in Egypt, the politically involved - and makes enemies.

Rizk family lived just two nights after the arrest of Philip. Jeannette and her parents had just put to sleep because it rang at the door. "Five men in civilian standing in front of the door," says Jeannette, "two in Kampfänzügen and machine guns." They searched the house, "in search of evidence against Philip, the presumed sister.

At this time there was neither an indictment nor an official accusation against Philip. The family had just about detours learned that he was actually arrested. Someone from the American University in Cairo, at the Philip studied, had made an unofficial security circles confirmation.

Unusually, the approach of the authorities in Egypt have not. Already since 1981 the state of emergency prevails. This allows the government of President Husni Mubarak and the security apparatus, a suspect at any time and without any specific allegation arrest. According to official figures sit so 1800 prisoners in prisons and camps, without them the process was made. Human rights organizations estimate the number much higher, at around 10,000.

Nocturnal house searches and Ablenkungsmaneuver

In the house of the family Rizk found the security forces, not a burden, but then wanted to bring the father to ask him. Rallied Only a lawyer who also worked for Amnesty International, was able to prevent.

"I suspect, however, that all this was just a Ablenkungsmaneuver," says Rizk blogs Jaennette ONLINE, at the same time, her apartment and her brother have been screened. Philips laptop if they had taken away his iPod, their video camera and two hard drives of Jeannette, then their complete computer backup, and a documentary, as the thesis on the lives of women in Cairo had rotated.

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Philip Rizk: blogger, student, activist globalized

Several reports of Egyptian authorities have now confirmed that Rizk detention. The New York Times quoted a spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior, a general who does not want to be named: "It all happened under the Egyptian law. Please contact the Office of the Attorney General."

The Foreign Office in Berlin has already confirmed last Saturday that the case was known and the German Embassy to try to clarify. A spokeswoman said blogs ONLINE on Tuesday, the embassy was in contact with the family and the Egyptian authorities. We strive to consular access to Philip Rizk.

An Internet campaign to mobilize international support

In the meantime, the Internet is an impressive campaign supporters started. The Facebook group "Support and Prayer for the safe release of Philip Rizk has more than 4500 members. In "Flickr", there are
Slideshows of solidarity demonstrations in Cairo, in Twitter write numerous micro-bloggers on any development and call for an online petition to support it. In England and the USA swashes the digital outrage just about right to life: In London, New York and San Francisco protesters want to meet with protest marches.

Twitter is also one of the first to have reported the arrest. An Arab Socialist group wrote that Rizk had been kidnapped, the editor in chief of an American Evangelicals newspaper reported the arrest Friday night at 3:47 clock.

The excitement in the network across all countries and cultural boundaries is not surprising, when the biography of Philip Rizk knows. It could give activists a globalized, highly educated, with friends and supporters, readers and listeners around the world.

The global activist

He was born in Cyprus, raised in Cairo, where he visited the German school. His father, who runs a small publishing house, came from Egypt, his mother from Germany. Philip holds dual citizenship.

In order to study philosophy, he went for a semester in Freiburg, and then with a scholarship in the USA, Wheaton. Now he works on his master's work at the American University in Cairo, he is also dealing with the Gaza conflict. He speaks fluent English, Arabic and German. Friends who long to know him describe him as calm and considered. "But in a political discussion he could not offer the forehead, argumentative, he is the most superior," says one, who already knows from the kindergarten, but because of his own family in Egypt does not want to be called. Philip was deeply devout Christian - also a drive for his commitment.

As for his master's work returned to Cairo, he joined a group of young activists, half Egyptian, half foreigners. You call for "solidarity with the Palestinian people" and organized the protest march last Friday in one place, about an hour away from Cairo. Philip Rizk wore a debt on which he calls in Arabic script: "We have had enough. Opens the Rafah borders." Rafah crossing is the Gaza Strip, which Egypt does not open, if Israel does not agree.

But who the Egyptian government policy criticized, lives dangerously. For security circles in Cairo was reported on Tuesday, except Rizk was in the past few days, another blogger has been arrested on the Internet solidarity with the Palestinians and called the Egyptian Middle East policy was criticized. Dia al-Din Gad was on Friday at his home in the province Gharbija, northwest of Cairo, had been arrested, it was said.

Jeannette Rizk, the sister, the spokeswoman for the family, will continue to demonstrate the web site update, give interviews, herumtelefonieren and after her brother wastage. Recent unofficial sources indicate that the security forces kept him in an institution in a northern Cairo suburb noted. Jeannette Rizk will try to make him clothes and food to bring a plate and Ritter Sport. "The mag he was so happy," she says. On Thursday, Philip birthday, he is 27th

German PhD student pleads not guilty.

"Shame on you!" Chinese students were outraged when the German student Martin J. his shoe on their Premier Wen Jiabao accused. Now the shoe thrower in Cambridge before the court. The candidate of the elite university said he had not disrupted public order.

 

It should be a political statement, it now brought the young man to court. In a speech to the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at the University of Cambridge grabbed the German Martin J. Turnschuh his left and threw him in the direction of the prime minister on the stage. Wen He failed by about one meter, eyewitness reports, the throw was a respectable performance, because the distance is great and the angle was quite acute.

When Voranhörung before the court stressed the 27-year-old Ph.D. student of pathology on Tuesday that he was "not guilty". The indictment accuses him public nuisance, insults and call for violence before. In the case of a conviction threatens the young man up to six months imprisonment and a fine of around 5700 euros. Until the process on 10 March of the young man remains free, but let me until the end of the procedure does not speak with the press.

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So loud, he had in early February in the lecture hall during the speech of Chinese Premier Wen said: "How can the university for this dictator prostitute? How can you listen to the lies that he tells? Stand up and protested," the candidate had before throwing his shoe called.

A video on youtube shows how in the darkened auditorium of the shoe landed on the stage. Some of the accent after Chinese students jumped her verbal head of government to the side, and cried out to the pitcher, he should be ashamed. Under "Shame on you" Call was Martin J. unresistingly by the police arrest them.

From China, it was initially, Wen Jiabao condemn the attack as "despicable conduct". Meanwhile, the student, however, officially at the Chinese Embassy for the Litter apologized.

In a letter to the Chinese Embassy in London, the blogs ONLINE exists, he wrote: "I ask you, my apology to the Chinese people and to the Prime Minister that I found his speech at the University of Cambridge was interrupted, accept. I is clear that I do not need the respect and kindness showed to a guest of the University are entitled. Let me assure you that it was not my intention, the Chinese people to insult. "

The letter was on behalf of the university doctoral sent to the embassy. That leads some observers to suspect, the young man had the line at the urging of his faculty written. Upon receipt of the letter on Monday, China's Premier Wen had officially
to bear with the student asked.

"Training is the best help for young people," Wen was on the Chinese Embassy in London made. It was hoped that the university the young man continued to study leave.

Inspiration for the shoe throwing the student was probably a similar attack on the former U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year. The Fersehjournalist who threw the shoe, sits in custody since December. Another Trtittbrettfahrer recently attacked the Israeli ambassador in Stockholm with a thrown shoe.

If the impasse is for the Bachelor.

Only the bachelor, the master then? That does not work automatically. Many strictly from seven universities and take only the best students in the masters class. The first Ausgebremst oppose the procedure and argue with the Basic Law.

 

The excitement was great in Potsdam, as the university last summer in an authorization constraint for the new master's degree in biological sciences announced. A Bachelor's degree score of 2.6 or better should be candidates who are in the disciplines of ecology, cellular biology, biochemistry and bioinformatics enroll wanted. Many students were angry about the new regulations.

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Their fear: For Bachelors who fail at this hurdle, the consecutive study system to deadlock. Particularly in the sciences, where today a large proportion of students with the university until the Doctor leaves, the Bachelor may not be sufficient. Graduates who are only to create a first degree, could be from employers on an equal footing with graduates of training asked.

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"We have a lot of anxious students reported that we unfortunately can not calm down," says Florian Asta-Speaker Piepka. "The master must be kept free access, otherwise go here many professional perspectives forcibly bathe for reasons that students do not have to represent."

The University pacifies. We have a qualitative access restriction must find, said University Vice President Thomas Grünewald. For the winter semester 2008/2009 is also hardly a candidate because of the note was rejected. In biochemistry, for example, be it only in one case.

However, in Potsdam is also only a few previously bachelor graduates given. "The great wave of students who begin their studies may not continue, will only be on us," said student representative Florian Piepka. He assumes that the university is gradually restricted admission to almost all master will introduce. A new scheme in the Brandenburg Higher Education Act will open this gate and door.

Each state established its own hurdles

Potsdam is not an isolated case. That access to consecutive, ie one on the bachelor-degree-based Master of other criteria than a completed bachelor's degree depends, is the rule rather than the exception. The Education Ministers of the countries, the universities are already in their common structural guidelines from 2003 are invited to special hurdles for Master's candidates to create.

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In such a system with graded degrees of Bachelor was generally conclude that the majority of students in the professional start. "With the entry requirements for the Master must be the character of the Master's degree as a second academic degree should be stressed," it says in the structural requirements. "In the interest of the international reputation and acceptance of Master's degrees by the labor market is a high professional and scientific level (?) Guarantee. Therefore, the study in the Master's degree of access other special prerequisites."

In some Länder, the Ministries of Science also determine how the capacity of universities for bachelor's and master's degrees have to be distributed transition rates and what it should give to the master. In Berlin, a rate of 70 percent agreed. In Lower Saxony, 50 percent are planning a size for the universities. Critics see this hidden cost-saving measures. Associations like the Association of Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom) fear that the level of education could fall.

CriteriaId maze at transfer to a Master's degree

In practice, the lines of a jungle of criteria: They range from a certain grade average in the Bachelor or a numerus clausus on work experience, language skills, to selection interviews, motivation and recommendation letters or entrance exams. The number of actually available Master courses vary from specialist to specialist and from university to university. Many universities have made no prior experience, how many students at a Master aspire.

It currently leads to the fact that in some courses even free places to stay. For the first year of the winter semester 2007/2008, launched Master's in Political Science at the University of Mannheim had about just five students. Reason: A large proportion of bachelor's graduates had opted abroad weiterzustudieren or equal to enter into the profession.

The "Junge Karriere", the largest business faculties of German universities asked which conditions students of business administration, economics and related subjects for the master's degree must meet (see table on page 72). The result: All the seven universities. Most will require a certain Bachelor's score - the limit is on average about 2.5 - requires.

Many universities also put on different selection. Particularly thorough, the LMU Munich. In addition to the letter of recommendation from a university invites a TOEFL (minimum 600 points) and a GMAT test. The GMAT is for MBA courses common, and also have at least 600 of 800 possible points are achieved. For comparison, the MBA students of a top business school Insead and reach an average of 700 points.

Also, the transition rates differ considerably. The University of Paderborn is ten percent, and only then could the faculty-student Master provide optimal conditions, provides the justification. In Mannheim, however, may not exceed 50 percent (BWL), or 60 percent (VWL) Bachelors of further study. The Baden-Württemberg's elite school for the young industry wants to master their flagship, and even abroad for the best student wastage.