"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" is a recommendation of Derek Bok, author and former Director of the Harvard University. Will the Germans try? The latest figures we have to show the financial predicament of Germany’s universities date back to 2001. But we’re all familiar with the plans the German Federal States have to make savings of hundreds of millions in the tertiary sector while they continue to wrangle over the label "elite university." Meanwhile, primary school children and their parents are worried wether their classes are preserved or not. At the same time some all-day schools are vociferously opened.

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