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Dear visitor,
you can find information on internet resources concerning all aspects of education here: please read the About Us section if you require further information on the Eduserver.
You will find that the subject areas presented on the Eduserver websites concern international visitors, too. A thematic collection of interesting resources that are available in English (and, in many cases, in several other languages, too) can be found in the dossier Find out about Germany. If you cannot find the particular resource you need here, please read our Frequently Asked Questions. More resources can also be found by searching our databases. You are also welcome to contact the editor, or our research service dbs@dipf.de.
Dossier
Find out about Germany
Our portal for international guests
-general information
-official addresses
-working and living in Germany
-learning and teaching German
-the German education system: basic facts
- exchange programmes
- Germany for young people
Dossier
Vocational education and continuing education
newly updated in March 2010!
Dossier
Working and living in Germany
newly updated in March 2010!
Dossier
Focus on Immigration Policy in Germany
Editors' tip
Germany - right in te middle of it. Living and working in the heart of Europe. (2010)
http://www.ba-auslandsvermittlung.de/lang_de/nn_3166/SharedDocs/Publikationen/Mobil-in-Europa/Themenhefte/germany-rightinthemiddleofit-Themenheft,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf
A guide to living and working in Germany, published by the International Placement Services of the Federal Employment Agency (ZAV). Key issues: finding a job in Germany, learning German, family unification. , .
Editors' tip
Information for foreign students wishing to undertake a student internship (work placement) in Germany (§ 2 No. 3 Employment Ordinance – BeschV)
http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/zentraler-Content/A04-Vermittlung/A046-ArGV/Publikation/pdf/Info-auslaend-Stud-engl.pdf
The document provides twenty questions and answers pertinent to internships (work placements) in Germany, applicable for foreign students: where and how to apply, what documents to submit, how to organise visa and health insurance. The date is October 2008.
Editors' tip
The High Cost of Low Educational Performance.
The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/11/28/44417824.pdf
While many nations express a commitment to improved educational quality, education often slips down on the policy agenda. Because the benefits of educational investments are seen only in the future, it is possible to underestimate the value and the importance of improvements. This report uses recent economic modelling to relate cognitive skills – as measured by PISA and other international instruments – to economic growth. This relationship indicates that relatively small improvements in the skills of a nation’s labour force can have very large impacts on future well-being. Moreover, the gains, put in terms of current GDP, far outstrip today’s value of the short-run business-cycle management. This is to say that long-run issues should not be neglected. A modest goal of having all OECD countries boost their average PISA scores by 25 points over the next 20 years implies an aggregate gain of OECD GDP of USD 115 trillion over the lifetime of the generation born in 2010 (as evaluated at the start of reform in terms of real present value of future improvements in GDP). The report also shows that it is the quality of learning outcomes, not the length of schooling, which makes the difference. Other aggressive goals, such as bringing all students to a level of minimal proficiency for the OECD (i.e. reaching a PISA score of 400), would imply aggregate GDP increases of close to USD 200 trillion.
