Niederrhein College

Niederrhein College
type of school	Further education college
founding	1953
address	Wehrstrasse 69
place	Oberhausen
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 28 '9 " N , 6 ° 52' 55" E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '9 " N , 6 ° 52' 55" E
carrier	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
management	Regina Zimmermann
Website	www.niederrhein-kolleg.de

The Niederrhein-Kolleg in Oberhausen , abbreviation NRK , is a state day school for the second educational path and, as the oldest college in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , has been offering adults the general higher education entrance qualification or the technical college entrance qualification since 1953 .

history

On June 9, 1953, the North Rhine-Westphalian minister of culture, Christine Teusch (CDU) announced the establishment of the Oberhausen Institute for university entrance qualification. In November, the new facility for adult education on the second educational path on the border between the two districts of Schlad and Dümpten in the city of Oberhausen in the Rhineland in the building of the former Dümpter elementary school began operating after the Pedagogical Academy Oberhausen , which was still in the building, as a branch of the later college of education Rhineland had closed its gates. This makes the college in Oberhausen the second oldest of its kind in Germany after the Braunschweig college and the first in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The course, which at that time still lasted four semesters, started with 27 students from all parts of Germany under the direction of the first institute director Heinrich Bauer. Because disputes about the assignment to the general or vocational school system were not resolved in the early years, the Minister of Education Werner Schütz (CDU) chaired the first Abitur in 1955 . In the period from 1953 to 1958, the institute's own dormitory (completion on November 1, 1956) and the scientific building with the auditorium and the cafeteria (inauguration October 1958) were built according to the plans and under the direction of the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers . With the beginning of the summer semester of 1961, the number of semesters was increased from four to five. Since 1965 the official name of the institution was "Oberhausen-Kolleg - State Institute for Obtaining University Entrance Qualifications".

On January 1, 1964, the institute was subordinated to the Düsseldorf School Council of the District President in Düsseldorf, and from January 1, 1986 to the school department of the District President in Düsseldorf. In the winter semester of 1965/66, the compulsory elective system was introduced based on the grammar school training and examination regulations. At the beginning of the winter semester 1981/82, the course system was introduced based on the model of the upper school level and the duration of the course was increased to six semesters. At the same time as the renaming of all schools on the second educational path ( Abendrealschule , Abendgymnasium and Kolleg) in North Rhine-Westphalia to " Further Education Colleges", the Oberhausen-Kolleg was renamed to "Niederrhein-Kolleg Staatliches Weiterbildungskolleg - Bildungsgang Kolleg" on August 1, 2000 To clarify the catchment area that extends from the Ruhr area over the left bank of the Rhine to the Lower Rhine.

General information on the type of school

Integration into the school system

The second educational path (“ZBW” for short) refers to educational programs that enable adults who have already completed their compulsory education to obtain a higher school qualification. This includes the free public general education school forms or courses of the evening secondary schools, the evening high schools and the colleges.

degrees

The following school qualifications can be obtained:

In the evening school course: the secondary school leaving certificate and the middle school leaving certificate ( technical college entrance qualification )

In the evening grammar school course, where lessons usually take place in the evening: the school part of the technical college entrance qualification ( Fachhochschulreife ) or the general higher education entrance qualification ( Abitur )

In the college course, in which the lessons take place on a daily basis: the school part of the technical college entrance qualification ( Fachhochschulreife ) or the general college entrance qualification ( Abitur ).

The necessary prerequisites for attending these courses can also be acquired in courses at adult education centers.

Admission requirements

Anyone wishing to be admitted to a further education college in North Rhine-Westphalia must meet the following requirements:

Minimum age: 18 years
Completed vocational training - or - proof of at least two years of professional activity (running a family household with at least one person in need of upbringing or care, military and civil service periods, proven unemployment can be taken into account).
Technical college entrance qualification or successful attendance of a preliminary course or passing an aptitude test

Special features of the NRK

Subject offer

The subjects taught at a further education college in the college and evening high school courses are divided into different task areas , as in the upper level .
I. Field of activity (the linguistic-literary-artistic): German, English, French, Latin and art.
II. Field of activity (social science): History, geography, philosophy, sociology and economics.
III. Field of activity (the mathematical-scientific-technical): mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics.
Without assignment of tasks: religious studies

School career

The six-semester school attendance is divided into the introductory phase (semesters 1 to 2) and the qualification phase (semesters 3 to 6) , analogous to the upper school level in North Rhine-Westphalia. The ordinance on training and examinations in the courses of the advanced training college of North Rhine-Westphalia applies.

Introductory phase

In the introductory phase, the basic content for the course phase is conveyed. Compulsory subjects are German, English, mathematics (each five hours), French or Latin (each four hours), biology and history (each three hours) in both semesters. In the first or second semester, chemistry, geography, philosophy, physics, religion, sociology and economics (two to three hours each) are still taught as elective courses. At the end of the first and second semester, there is a transfer to the next higher semester if the teaching performance is appropriate.

Qualification phase

In this course phase, in addition to compulsory subjects, there are also options from the offerings presented for the introductory phase. German, English, mathematics or biology, history and art are currently offered as courses. After the 4th semester there is the possibility of acquiring the school-based part of the technical college entrance qualification, after the 6th semester there is the possibility of taking the central examinations for the general higher education entrance qualification (Abitur).

Costs and funding opportunities

Classes at a college are free. Books are made available within the framework of the freedom of learning materials. Parent-independent and loan-free funding under the Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) is usually possible if the training started before the age of 30. The Office for Education Funding of the City of Oberhausen provides expert information.

degrees

The Niederrhein-Kolleg is also one of the currently four schools in the Düsseldorf administrative district where the external Abitur examination (formerly Abitur for non-students ) is taken once a year . Registration for this takes place exclusively through the district government of Düsseldorf.

Support association

In 1959, a support association was founded at the Niederrhein-Kolleg. The aim of the association is to promote and financially support the common school commitment of students and teachers at the NRK for a lively collegiate community and sustainable further education. In addition to institutional funding as a primary concern of the friends' association, it also forms a link between the college, current students and former students who remain connected to the college.

architecture

The buildings created by Oswald Mathias Ungers between 1953 and 1959 are considered to be the artist's early works. The student dormitories in particular picked up on the international trend towards cluster-shaped, modular architectures at the time. With this architecture, the Niederrhein-Kolleg belongs to the round tour of exemplary examples of architecture and architectural development in the city of Oberhausen.

Dorm

On the grounds of the Niederrhein-Kolleg Oberhausen there is a student residence behind the school buildings in a park. Over 50 students find accommodation in nine houses. Each house has three unfurnished single rooms of approx. 20 m² on the ground floor and first floor. There is also a washing / shower room per floor and a toilet facility. A communal kitchen is located on the second floor of each house. The residential complex also has a laundry room with two automatic washing machines and a tumble dryer.

Oddities

In 2013, the Düsseldorf ophthalmologist Eckhard Roth pretended to be a ship's cook and signed up for the Abitur examination as an autodidact with forged papers. He passed the exams and exposed the vertigo afterwards.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the NiederrheinKolleg 1953–2003. Published by the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Niederrhein-Kollegs e. V.

↑ website Bafög Office of the city of Oberhausen . Retrieved October 4, 2016.

↑ Website of the Ministry of Education for the external Abitur examination ( memento of the original from October 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 4, 2016. @1@ 2

↑ negotiating ungers: the materiality of the social. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .

^ Art round tour Oberhausen. Website for the art tour of particularly worth seeing architecture in Oberhausen. Retrieved October 4, 2016.

↑ The doctor who once again made his Abitur as a ship's cook. Online article from the newspaper Die Welt . Retrieved October 4, 2016.

[1] Cf. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the NiederrheinKolleg 1953–2003. Published by the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Niederrhein-Kollegs e. V.

[2] website Bafög Office of the city of Oberhausen . Retrieved October 4, 2016.