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By Jürgen Georg Backhaus

This ebook discusses the philosophy and academic reforms initiated through Wilhelm von Humboldt in addition to their legacy within the sleek collage method. It starts with a dialogue of the background of the college from antiquity and the center a long time throughout the period of Humboldt’s reforms and its remnants in and implications for the current day. The authors then delve into coverage, outlining the major conflicts that experience knowledgeable the advance of college academic coverage, akin to the conflict among academia schooling, the coordination of public management and academic associations, and the perennial factor of investment. Humboldt’s principles are then mentioned inside an monetary context, utilizing his principals of the kingdom to research the connection among present versions of family and kin economics and German fiscal and social coverage. The publication is rounded off via a philosophical research of the establishment of the collage and concludes with an replace of the continues to be Humboldt’s reforms in the present collage process. With its multidisciplinary method of the research of upper schooling reform in Europe and its key gamers, this publication will entice students of financial historical past, academic coverage, and public management in addition to directors and coverage makers in greater schooling. ​

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The holiday for mothers after birth of her children (Wochenurlaub) is reduced from twenty weeks to eight weeks since the beginning of 1991, the laws referring to maternity leave (Babyjahr) and assistance for mothers (Mutterunterstützung) are replaced by the federal laws of educational holiday (Erziehungsurlaub) and child-raising-benefits (Erziehungsgeld).  282). Twenty-Sixth Thesis The value of children has decreased; children have assumed a lower priority than other aims of self-determined life planning.

Uth, J. (2000). Laufende Verdiensterhebung im Produzierenden Gewerbe, Handel, Kredit- und Versicherungsgewerbe—Oktober 1995 bis Oktober 1999. Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik: Statistische Monatshefte Thüringen, 8/2000 (pp. 23–32). Erfurt: Thuringian State Statistical Office. What Remains of Humboldt at Times of the Bologna Reform? Hans A. Frambach 1 Introduction What is the current situation at universities? Since the 1960s we observe a “massification of higher education” (Gibbons et al.  76–80) with an increasing number of those passing school exams choosing their ways into universities.

363). Table 14 Kind of families’ and number of children in Thuringia 1991—2010. 9 [] 16 [] Over time, definition of Families has been modified in federal statistics: today family includes married couples, civil unions and same-sex unions b Including civil unions and same-sex unions: 325 c Including civil unions and same-sex unions: 364 d Including civil unions and same-sex unions: 241 a 32 G. Scheuerer Twenty-Fifth Thesis (Perceived) worsening public family benefits and advantages for mothers with children in working conditions lead to time shortening for mothers and reduce periodic and cohort fertility.

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