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Highlights of previous SSBA conferences :-

2007 Developing a Parent Council and Encouraging Parental Involvement

2006 The Way Forward for Parental Involvement

2005 Parents in Partnership

2003 Partnerships and responsibilities

2002 SSBA is fit for the future

2001 Roadshow

2000 International
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Education System in Berlin

Summary

The workshop will give a short and simplified overview of the educational system in Berlin which is a little bit different from the other German lender and then will focus on parental decision making in education. A-fter a glance on the possibilities of parental representatives (details are to be read in the conference book) we will talk about some pilot projects such as Grundschule 2000 (Primary education 2000), Stadt-als-Schule (City-as-school),

Integrationsklassen (Integration of handicapped children), Schnelliiufer-Abitur (Rapid high school diploma) and Grundstiindiges Gymnasium (6-years-grammar school), which are all -to a certain extend- the results of parental decision making. We will finish with some remarks on the ongoing change of the Berlin education system according to the plans of a new school law probably to be published at the end of this year. This change will mean an empowerment of the school council, an empowerment unknown until now by German schools, but already well known by a number of anglo-saxon countries.

Klaus-J. Heinermann

Berlin, 25th May 2000

During the Glasgow Conference 1 was asked by one group the number of pupils of an age year who go to university after having left the grammar school. 1 answered 25 % because 1 was sure that 1 have read it somewhere. Back home again 1 couldn't find an exact answer to the above question. The teachers' union (V-BE aktuell 12, 1999, p. 1) says that 30 % of the Berlin pupils receive each year the 6th form leaving certificate (Abitur) allowing them to go to a university. But as not all of them want to do studies at the university the number of 25 % may be quite right. The Statistical Yearbook of the Federal Republic of Germany 1998 says that in 1996 (last data available) about 16 % of the German population older than 15 years had a school leaving certificate allowing them to go to universities and/or colleges and about 6 % had a university leaving certificate.

So, if you think that it's important for the minutes of the conference, please rectify.

Thanks again for your hospitality and the interesting conference!

Klaus

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