State high school diploma
The concept of the state high school diploma envisages the gradual development of a joint school leaving examination through joint tasks in certain subjects or cooperation between individual German states . This is intended to strengthen the acceptance of educational federalism and enable better comparability of the Abitur exams.
History of origin
The idea is based on an advance from the German states. In the spring of 2011, the Ministers of Culture of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony, Henry Tesch and Roland Wöller , as well as their colleague from Bavaria, Ludwig Spaenle , justified the initiative by stating that the basic right to education must be preserved in an increasingly mobile society. At the same time, however, the principle anchored in the Basic Law “education is a matter for the states” according to Art. 30 GG should be adhered to. Approval also came from the SPD. Ties Rabe , school policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in Hamburg, welcomed the initiative as a “step in the right direction”.
The concept of a state high school diploma is part of the CDU lead application entitled “Educational Republic of Germany”, which was to be adopted at the party congress in November 2011 in Leipzig.
The concrete implementation of the state high school diploma could only take place by means of a state treaty . As early as 2007, at the suggestion of the SPD-led states, the Standing Conference commissioned the Institute for Quality Development in Education, which had been set up specifically for the development of comparative studies, to present scientifically tested standards that were to be implemented in school practice by means of joint task pools in the 2013/14 school year at the latest.
Six countries started in 2014 and incorporated common parts of tasks into their central high school diploma exams, two years later there were eight countries. In 2018, the number of countries using a common task pool in mathematics rose to 15.
criticism
The mutual recognition of country-specific school-leaving qualifications in Germany has so far been guaranteed by the Hamburg Agreement of October 1964. According to the principle of federalism , education, and thus the design of the Abitur tasks, is exclusively a matter for the individual countries. Accepting a transnational high school diploma restricts the freedom of the individual ministries of education.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 2, 2011 Abitur exams in Germany: Comparable tasks for everyone
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt dated February 3, 2011 The Abitur should be comparable
- ↑ CDU Germany's Educational Republic of Germany Application by the federal executive committee of the CDU Germany to the 24th party congress on 14./15. November 2011 in Leipzig, line 503 ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 210 kB)
- ^ Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Bildung (AfB) in the SPD Saxony, July 31, 2011 Of three who went out to save educational Germany ... ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ bayern.de
- ↑ bildungsklick.de
- ↑ sachsen.de
