Challenging Hamburgs Education Reforms
Hamburg, July 2022
About the occasion of the debate: Ties Rabe, Hamburg’s Senator for Schools and Vocational Education, proposes new educational reforms that might reshape schooling for an upcoming decade.
The local authorities reforms towards eduction are driven by the need of hightening value of final degrees by raising levels of difficulty and effort for meeting expectation for reception.
This includes mandatory increasement of written exams, the demolishment of any kind of examination substitution, and retention of frontal teaching. Meanwhile, educational curricula, within the branch of natural sciences in particular, are being expanded in quantity.
About the reasons behind resistance of university groups, proposed solutions and strategies for implementation of change.
The resistance is a reaction to various unpopular changes introduced by the educational reform, such as overweightening written exams, static calculation of marks, underrepresented changes imposed by digitalization and banning participation in competitions as exam substitutes.
We clearly point out to the press that greater quantity of written exams increases representability, this is not an adequate approach for improving the written performance itself.