Germany is flunking the education test
Its scores are heading down, as its schools fail to adapt
FROM MAY 1st, the proud holders of doctorates will no longer be allowed to put the title Dr in front of their name in German passports. For a country obsessed with qualifications—Prof Drs are fairly common and even Dr Drs not so rare—this decline in standing may be hard. But it is not so hard as the decline in German educational standards.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Schuling around”
Europe April 20th 2024
- Germany is flunking the education test
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- How Russia targeted France and radicalised Emmanuel Macron
- Ukraine is digging in as the Kremlin steps up its offensive
- Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia
- How a conservative conference morphed into a crisis of liberalism
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