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Fight against the shortage of daycare specialists: Lower Saxony is training more than ever before
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Fight against the shortage of daycare specialists: Lower Saxony is ...
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School: District administrators from Cuxhaven and Stade call on the Minister of Education to take action
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School: District administrators from Cuxhaven and Stade call on the ...
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Minister of Education: With 18,000 trainees at daycare centers nationwide: How does childcare in daycare centers remain reliable and affordable? How can the ...
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Minister of Education: With 18,000 trainees at daycare centers nationwide
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Lack of teachers is the main cause of the educational crisis? Lower Saxony wants to take countermeasures
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Lack of teachers is the main cause of the educational crisis? Lower Saxony ...
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School lessons: This district has the worst provision: There is a shortage of teachers in the Stade and Cuxhaven districts: This is leading to ever-increasing ...
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School lessons: This district has the worst provision
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Payment cards for refugees: Disagreement in the debate about payment cards - Criticism of the Greens
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Thuringian running club wins federal final “Stars of Sports”: Berlin: Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD, 2nd from right), together with Marija Kolak (r) ...
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Thuringian running club wins federal final “Stars of Sports”
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For years: teaching provision has increased slightly again: Teaching provision is an important value when looking at how schools are doing ...
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For years: teaching provision has increased slightly again
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Braunschweig debate on the daycare crisis: The standards are shaky: At the “Talk in the Media House”, Lower Saxony’s Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg ...
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Braunschweig debate on the daycare crisis: The standards are shaky
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Livestream: Shortage of skilled workers in childcare: A lack of staff in daycare centers is a problem nationwide. Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg also ...
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Livestream: Shortage of skilled workers in childcare
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Lower Saxony's Minister of Education wants relief for school trips: Lower Saxony's Education Minister Julia Willie Hamburg (Alliance 90/The Greens) is in favor ...
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Lower Saxony's Minister of Education wants relief for school trips
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Problems at schools: teacher shortages are getting worse in the Aurich district: According to Lower Saxony's Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg (Greens) ...
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Problems at schools: teacher shortages are getting worse in the Aurich ...
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Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg visits the Hankensbüttel high school: Education Minister Julia Willie Hamburg visited the Hankensbüttel high school to ...
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Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg visits the Hankensbüttel high ...
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Dispute over austerity package in Hanover: SPD and Greens damage top staff: In the dispute over the austerity program, the SPD and the Greens are damaging their ...
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Dispute over austerity package in Hanover: SPD and Greens damage top staff
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Lower Saxony's Minister of Education advises students to use AI: Chat-GPT, artificial intelligence, AfD and teachers as well as parent taxis: Lower Saxony's ...
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Lower Saxony's Minister of Education advises students to use AI
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Almost 6,000 students leave school without a qualification: In Lower Saxony, thousands of students have once again left school without a qualification ...
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Almost 6,000 students leave school without a qualification
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Olivia In 'She's The Man' 'Memba Her?!: American actress Laura Ramsey was 23 years old when she landed the role playing Olivia in the comedic film "She's The ...
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Olivia In 'She's The Man' 'Memba Her?!
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Bloody crime in Cuxhaven: A teenager stabs a classmate in the classroom: In front of her classmates, a teenager seriously injured another girl with a knife in a ...
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Bloody crime in Cuxhaven: A teenager stabs a classmate in the classroom
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Minister Hamburg: Pisa results worrying: The recent Pisa shock for Germany is also affecting Lower Saxony's school policy. The Green Minister of Education in ...
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Minister Hamburg: Pisa results worrying
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CDU: Compulsory daycare for five-year-olds with no knowledge of German: What consequences does the poor Pisa result have for education in Lower Saxony? The CDU ...
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CDU: Compulsory daycare for five-year-olds with no knowledge of German
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CDU calls for compulsory daycare for five-year-olds without knowledge of German: In view of the poor results in the most recent PISA study, the CDU in the Lower ...
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CDU calls for compulsory daycare for five-year-olds without knowledge of ...
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Certificates: Why high schools in Lower Saxony will soon no longer have to award numerical grades
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Certificates: Why high schools in Lower Saxony will soon no longer have to ...
Quick Glance: New Flexibility: Niedersachsen Schools Soon Allowed to Ditch Numerical Grades
  • Report cards are mandatory for first and second graders, but secondary schools will soon have the option to forgo numerical grades.

  • Gymnasiums, secondary, and middle schools can also issue narrative evaluations instead of numerical grades if desired.

  • Niedersachsen's Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg (Green Party) announced this change months ago and is now implementing it.
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What do you say to the criticism from Grafschafter teachers, Minister?: Corona consequences, inclusion, migration: The situation at Grafschafter primary schools ...
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What do you say to the criticism from Grafschafter teachers, Minister?
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New survey in Lower Saxony: Red-Green loses majority: If there were a state election in Lower Saxony on Sunday, the CDU would become the strongest party ...
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New survey in Lower Saxony: Red-Green loses majority
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Stress in Lower Saxony's schools: teachers should exert less pressure: The Lower Saxony State Student Council has complained about an extremely high level of ...
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Stress in Lower Saxony's schools: teachers should exert less pressure
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Just in the Ukraine, on Friday already in Emden: Defense Minister Boris Pistorius' commitment to the 260th Emden Merchants' Banquet on Friday stands - as well as ...
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Just in the Ukraine, on Friday already in Emden
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Wolfsburg: Minister of Education Julia Hamburg talks about all-day schools: Shortage of teachers and high costs: All-day operation is to be introduced at all ...
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Wolfsburg: Minister of Education Julia Hamburg talks about all-day schools
Quick Glance: Reports Instead of Grades: Minister's Perspective
  • Minister Hamburg advocates for written reports over grades in elementary schools.

  • Increased focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic in elementary schools.

  • Current educational assessments indicate a decline in core skills.

  • Students require more time to adequately learn reading, writing, and arithmetic.
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Amok alarm in Salzgitter: Minister of Education praises the school: On Tuesday, the high school in Salzgitter-Bad was evacuated after a tip-off ...
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Amok alarm in Salzgitter: Minister of Education praises the school
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“Children need more time to really learn to read, write and do arithmetic”: Reports instead of grades, more time for reading, writing and arithmetic in primary ...
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“Children need more time to really learn to read, write and do arithmetic”
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SPD education congress: How poor children in Hanover could learn better: If you need more teachers, you should get more. But assigning teaching positions is not ...
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SPD education congress: How poor children in Hanover could learn better
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Cuxhaven: Minister of Education doesn't want quick fixes on explosive issues: A shortage of teachers and no relief in sight: we have to question what schools ...
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Cuxhaven: Minister of Education doesn't want quick fixes on explosive ...
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Braunschweig school wins student peace prize: The 1st prize in the Student Peace Prize goes to the Otto Bennemann School for the project “Democracy: Here. Now ...
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Braunschweig school wins student peace prize
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Lower Saxony's Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg is following a plan: Green, woman, VW supervisory board member without her own car: Lower Saxony's ...
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Lower Saxony's Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg is following a ...
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Lower Saxony: The state government kept these promises in the first year: What is the balance of the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) and his deputy ...
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Lower Saxony: The state government kept these promises in the first year
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The Southampton area once home to several popular pubs: For a long time, Northam was home to many pubs that served as social hubs for the local community
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The Southampton area once home to several popular pubs
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Super trainees: Celle district provides four state winners: The Celle district is a good place for trainees: at least four young men are the best in their field ...
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Super trainees: Celle district provides four state winners
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Daycare crisis: “Talk im Medienhaus” with Julia Hamburg canceled: At the talk in the media house we wanted to talk to experts about the shortage of skilled ...
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Daycare crisis: “Talk im Medienhaus” with Julia Hamburg canceled
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Climate law and climate plan: “We cannot avoid this step”: Discussions on the new climate law have begun in the Hamburg parliament. Experts have now made it ...
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Climate law and climate plan: “We cannot avoid this step”
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Lower Saxony: state rejects general cell phone ban in schools: he government of Lower Saxony rejects a general ban on cell phones in schools ...
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Lower Saxony: state rejects general cell phone ban in schools
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Gendern in Lower Saxony: Association elects Minister of Education Hamburg as "Language Panscher 2023"
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Gendern in Lower Saxony: Association elects Minister of Education Hamburg ...
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AfD sues Osnabrück school theater: Minister concerned: AfD sues Osnabrück school theater at the Hanover administrative court and loses. Lower Saxony Minister of ...
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AfD sues Osnabrück school theater: Minister concerned
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School start in Lower Saxony: Minister expects poor teaching: The schools in Lower Saxony will have to struggle with a shortage of skilled workers for at least ...
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School start in Lower Saxony: Minister expects poor teaching
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50 years of IGS Roderbruch: Celebration of the school anniversary: The IGS Roderbruch has existed for 50 years and invited people to the “Rodiläum” - This is the ...
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50 years of IGS Roderbruch: Celebration of the school anniversary
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Lüneburg: Looking for thinkers and motivators in schools: Important impulses at the expert advisor day of the Lüneburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry Wolfsburg ...
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Lüneburg: Looking for thinkers and motivators in schools
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Tarmstedt students meet Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg: For the first time after the Corona break, an action day by the State Student Council took ...
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Tarmstedt students meet Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg
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Talk in the media house about the daycare crisis: Be there!: The shortage of skilled workers is causing restrictions in many daycare centers ...
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Talk in the media house about the daycare crisis: Be there!
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One week before school starts: More than 300 vacancies: There is a risk of class failures in Lower Saxony in the coming school year. 1,748 positions are to be ...
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One week before school starts: More than 300 vacancies
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Education in focus - This is how the annual reception of the regional church of Schaumburg-Lippe was
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Education in focus - This is how the annual reception of the regional ...
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Julia Willie Hamburg praises the project in the Osnabrück district: Lower Saxony's Deputy Prime Minister Julia Willie Hamburg praised the 20 million project in ...
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Julia Willie Hamburg praises the project in the Osnabrück district
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The state of Lower Saxony will spend money on this in 2024: The budget of the state of Lower Saxony for 2024 has a volume of 42.3 billion euros ...
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The state of Lower Saxony will spend money on this in 2024
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Hamburg Ballet: Neumeier triumphs with exceptionally young "Romeo and Juliet": At the opening of the Hamburg Ballet Days, a 15-year-old Neumeier student dances ...
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Hamburg Ballet: Neumeier triumphs with exceptionally young
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HAZ-Forum school policy: In the math Abi students get more time.: Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg promises improvements in the Abi ...
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HAZ-Forum school policy: In the math Abi students get more time.
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Despite top marks: why experts want to change the Abitur in Lower Saxony: The Abitur exams in Germany are becoming more and more similar, but Lower Saxony ...
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Despite top marks: why experts want to change the Abitur in Lower Saxony
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Graduations: Lower Saxony plans Abitur at an individual pace: Will everyone soon be able to graduate from school whenever they want? Lower Saxony's Minister of ...
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Graduations: Lower Saxony plans Abitur at an individual pace
Quick Glance: Niedersachsen allows more flexibility in learning: Abitur at your own pace
  • Niedersachsen's Education Minister Willie Hamburg (Green Party) aims to allow more individuality in learning

  • Students will have the opportunity to learn at their own pace

  • Possibility of an Abitur at one's own pace is being considered
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Teachers, hospitals, apartments: That's what Red-Green is planning: After a budget meeting, the state government presented its plans for the coming year ...
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Teachers, hospitals, apartments: That's what Red-Green is planning
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This is how the Lower Saxony day care center summit in Hanover went: What about daycare centers in Lower Saxony? The answer is pretty simple: bad ...
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This is how the Lower Saxony day care center summit in Hanover went
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HAZ Forum: Shortage of teachers - What helps against it?: The teacher shortage is more serious than ever. Part-time offers play a central role here ...
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HAZ Forum: Shortage of teachers - What helps against it?
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Talk on school policy in Hanover: HAZ forum on 7.6. in the courtyard: How do you get more teachers for Lower Saxony and Hanover? This will be discussed at the ...
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Talk on school policy in Hanover: HAZ forum on 7.6. in the courtyard
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Why do you want to combine school subjects, Ms. Hamburg?: Hildesheim - Should school subjects be merged in the future? Lower Saxony's Minister of Education ...
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Why do you want to combine school subjects, Ms. Hamburg?
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“More freedom”: Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg visits Hildesheim: Hildesheim - Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg observed the lessons in the ...
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“More freedom”: Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg visits ...