higher education in Germany

If you had walked through the halls of Georgia Northwestern Technical College in Rome for the past two weeks, you might have picked up a little German. The school has hosted a trio of German apprentice students as part of a partnership with the Herz Foundation that will send the students out to work for ...

A year ago the German armed forces set up a command center for internet security. The new German hacker-soldier elite is being trained at the Bundeswehr University, on the outskirts of Munich. ... This is the commitment they are usually required to make in order to study at the university. It's not everyone's ...

His decision was to pursue his lifelong desire to become a lawyer, he began his college career at Harvard University in 1960, graduating with an A.B. in government in 1964. While there, he ran for president of the debate council, getting one vote, his own, it was demoralizing. He started drinking, but God in ...

BERLIN -- The Chinese government is evaluating a German law that lays the groundwork for use of self-driving cars, and will likely adopt some of the German rules, a legal expert said. Eric Hilgendorf, who teaches law at the University of Wuerzburg and served on the German government's ethics ...

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The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student has been studying genetic engineering, bioinformatics, and systems biology at the University of Rostock in Germany since October and began the final phase of the fellowship in January with Willpower Energy, a German startup that helps homeowners ...

"Islam is definitely part of Germany: millions of Muslims live in Germany and have become citizens of this country," Mouhanad Khorchide, head of the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Muenster, told NPR. "We cannot differentiate between Islam and Muslims. According to the German ...

"I'm so proud that a hometown university competed in our global Code4life program and that it did so well. This is just one example that highlights the strong tech talent we have in our area colleges and universities. I'm excited about this competition, especially as IT and digital careers at Roche are ...

Currently, Germany's tertiary education system is founded on three pillars - strong research, good academic teaching and a strong pool of academia whose professional experience is continually enhanced by on-the-job learning. In other words, the German university lecturers are excellent specialists with ...

A private third-level German educator has retained agent Lambert Smith Hampton to source a 929-1,394sq m (10,000-15,000sq ft) building in Dublin suitable for education use. Founded in 1998, IUBH University of Applied Sciences is a private, state-recognised university of business and management.

In March 2017, Martin Schulz was announced, with great fanfare, as the new leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD). As the party's candidate for chancellor, “Saint Martin” was set to storm the 2017 elections, oust Angela Merkel and bring the SPD back to power. Twelve short months later, the ...

Cardinal Karl Lehmann, longtime president of the German bishops' conference and a respected theologian who participated in the Second Vatican ... His death leaves the College of Cardinals with 215 members, including 117 cardinals who are under the age of 80 and eligible to vote in a conclave to elect ...

According to a 2015 Bertelsmann study, one in two Germans views the religion as a threat. Fifty-seven percent of non-Muslim respondents characterised Islam as "very threatening" or "threatening". Nearly half of all university graduates share this view and 61 percent of Germans think the religion doesnʹt fit ...

If Trump also fulfills his threat against foreign carmakers, it would be a painful blow to German producers, particularly Porsche. The VW subsidiary is heavily dependent on sales in the United States, with every fourth vehicle sold in America. Were tariffs introduced, Porsche would likely be forced to raise its ...

Archaeologists have long suspected that modified skulls in German burials belonged to the Huns. .... Though she didn't work on the current study, Susanne Hakenbeck, a University of Cambridge historical archaeologist, has spent years trying to piece together the stories of the same women and others with ...

Phalane, Dr Eileen Thomas from Stellenbosch University; Zimkhita Soji from University of Fort Hare; Blessing Ahiante from North-West University, Dr Bianca Verlinden of the University of Pretoria and Shireen Mentor from University of the Western Cape are part of 600 young scientists who were selected ...

300-700 A.D.), "barbarian" groups like the Goths and Vandals roved around Europe, nibbling away at the declining Roman Empire and settling down as they went along. One tribe that got comfortable was the Bavarii, who hunkered down in what is now southern Germany around the sixth century A.D. And ...

“This is one of the strangest things I've ever read,” says Israel Hershkovitz, an anthropologist at Tel Aviv University in Israel, who specializes in ancient ... The Bavarian skulls were unearthed alongside regularly shaped ones near six modern southern German towns along the Danube River starting in the ...

Michigan forward Moritz Wagner, of Germany, reacts as time winds off the clock at the end of an NCAA college basketball game against Michigan State ... was referring to Moritz Wagner's mom, Beate Wagner (pronounced be-AH-ta vog-ner), who had traveled to New York from her home in Berlin, Germany.

In 1876 she became a professor of German and Art History at Wellesley College until taking a leave of absence in 1883 to travel abroad. While in Germany, she commenced study at Leipzig, Berlin, and Heidelberg, focusing on German philology (language) and art history. In 1896 she was fired from ...

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Speaking to Times Higher Education at the Max Planck Society's administrative headquarters in Munich, president Martin Stratmann said that the ... Universities hope that the schools will channel talented doctoral students into collaboration with university-based academics who are not able to set up a ...

New research from Aarhus University, in Denmark, predicts that German universities will see gains from Brexit, as British universities lose. The research is based on interviews with academics and university leaders in 10 European countries. Generally, those interviewed said they were feeling less likely ...

Brexit: German universities among those poised to benefit if researchers and funding shift ... Humboldt University in Berlin. ... We wanted to find out what they thought the impact of Brexit would be on their own higher education systems – and what strategies were emerging to respond to various Brexit ...

Continental university leaders have tended to downplay the idea that Brexit could be an opportunity, either to attract UK-based academics or win more European ... with German institutions,” says Higher Education and Brexit: Current European Perspectives, from the UCL Centre for Global Higher Education.

In many countries, Germany included, there is fierce debate over whether university expansion has gone further than the economy needs. ... trends in Germany through a task-based indicator of graduate jobs” from Golo Henseke, a research associate at the Centre for Global Higher Education at UCL.

With the IoT market expanding at an impressive rate, the need for platform interoperability has touched an all-time high. IOTA provides businesses with a scalable framework which converts technological resources into valuable assets that can then be traded on an open market. The technology which drives ...

Items in the strategy paper included making German higher education more attractive for international students, increasing international research ... The GWK wants to see universities in Germany that are “so good that they can compete with the best institutions in other countries and contribute to ...

What makes the apprenticeship model so effective is a mix of classroom instruction at a high school, college or university with on-the-job training. That combination is invaluable in a rapidly changing industrial community where extremely specific skill sets are required. However, colleges, universities or ...