The Situation of Post-Graduate Formation in Germany and New Tasks for Higher Education Centers in it

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  • ドイツの大学院教育と高等教育センターの課題

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The German university system experiences a high impact for change. The Bologna-Process fostering a European knowledge and economic area by setting up a standardization process for a European wide academic system meets a German University system in which reform processes are overdue since the introduction of German Mass Universities in the 1970ies. Humboldt’s paradigm of “freedom and unity of research and teaching” is still very high regarded amongst German academic members. But increasing numbers of students with constant teaching capacities alongside lack basic conditions for careful monitoring of student’s academic development. Universities missions for an academic formation have shifted from a research career oriented goal to a scientific formation for a future non-academic employment goal. Both processes influence discourses regarding the reform of Post-Graduate formation. Two models can be distinguished, the research apprenticeship model based on an individual student-professors relationship and the network model supporting the idea of interdisciplinary research work within teams. Referring to the results of two German surveys on doctoral formation both models will be discussed in order to distinguish new tasks for Higher Education Centers in Post-Graduate formation. The Post-Graduate network project of the Center for Higher Education of Dortmund University will be presented as “best practice” example.

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