German Committee for Education

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The German Committee for Education was constituted in September 1953. It represented the first joint cultural policy measure by the federal and state governments after the Second World War. The task of the committee was to “observe and to be promoted through advice and recommendation ”(Art. 1 Statute of the Committee).

In the twelve years of its existence, the committee issued 30 recommendations and opinions. In 1954 he called for compulsory education to be extended to nine years in all federal states. In 1959 he published the "Framework for the Reorganization and Standardization of the General Public School System" (often short framework plan ). In it he suggested adding a two-year "support level" ( orientation level in today's language ) to the four-year elementary school and thus postponing the selection for the three-tier school system by two years. However, an exception was made: the old-language grammar school should continue to start in class 5. A formulation that is important for vocational training in Germany appears in the report of July 10, 1964. There the "simultaneous training in school and company" is referred to as the dual system for the first time . The framework plan introduced the subject of work studies as a secondary school for the new secondary school. Among other things, with the company explorations and the company internships, the initiation of the vocational qualification was one of her pioneering tasks.

Independent personalities were appointed to the committee as members, so that it “could work free of all political ties for the one people living in the federal and state levels”, said the then Federal Minister of the Interior Robert Lehr . In practice, however, this independence of the committee meant that it was largely isolated from the political decision-makers, who did not even have to officially take note of its non-binding recommendations. In 1965 it was therefore dissolved and replaced by the German Education Council, which was more closely linked to the decision-makers in the federal and state levels .

literature

  • Hüfner, Klaus and Naumann, Jens: Cyclicals in education policy in the Federal Republic of Germany . 1st edition 1977. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart.
  • Kleemann, Ulla: The German committee for education and training. A study on educational policy advice in the Federal Republic of Germany. With an afterword by Kurt Frey . Weinheim: Beltz 1977 ISBN 3-407-65604-1