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Press release No. 112 of 20 March 2023 Higher number of new participants in qualifying programmes between school and apprenticeship in 2022 for the first time since 2016
In 2022, roughly 239,000 young people started a qualifying programme of the transition sector between school and apprenticeship in Germany. The aim is to acquire basic vocational knowledge or to obtain a secondary general or intermediate school …
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Press release No. 105 of 15 March 2023
Number of pupils up 1.9% in 2022/2023
Roughly 11.1 million pupils are receiving education in schools of general education and vocational schools, and in schools for nurses, midwives, etc. in Germany in school year 2022/2023, according to provisional results. The Federal Statistical …
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Press release No. 074 of 27 February 2023 Number of persons qualified to enter higher education down 2.1% in 2022
In 2022, roughly 385,000 pupils in Germany attained the qualification to enter a university or university of applied sciences. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a 2.1% decrease in the …
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Press release No. N 008 of 13 February 2023 Part-time employment rate among teachers just under 41% in school year 2021/2022
In the context of the increasing demand for school teachers, an aspect often discussed is the extent of employment of teachers. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that roughly 709,000 teachers worked at schools of general education in …
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Press release No. N 005 of 30 January 2023 School year 2021/2022: number of repeaters up again
After rules regarding the promotion to the next grade had been modified in the first school year following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of children and young people repeating a grade rose significantly again in school year …
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Press release No. 520 of 8 December 2022 Public education expenditure up 3.3% in 2021
The education expenditure of the Federation, Länder and municipalities increased to 169.3 billion euros in 2021. That was an increase of roughly 5.3 billion euros, or 3.3%, compared with 2020. Schools received 82.8 billion euros, which was just under …
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Press release No. 473 of 11 November 2022 Number of children starting school up by 5.2% in 2022 to highest level in 17 years
This year more children started school in Germany than in each of the past 17 years. The number of school starters was 810,700 at the beginning of the current school year of 2022/2023, according to provisional results. That was an increase by 40,000 …
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Press release No. N 052 of 12 August 2022 School year 2020/2021: part-time employment rate among teachers almost 40%
Summer school holidays ended on 9 August in Nordrhein-Westfalen, which is the first Land where school has started. At the beginning of the new school year, demand for teachers has been in the focus of public attention again. In school year 2020/2021, …
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Press release No. 115 of 16 March 2022 Decline in the number of new participants in transition sector qualifying programmes continues in 2021
In 2021, 228,000 young people started a qualifying programme of the transition sector between school and apprenticeship in Germany. The aim is to acquire basic vocational knowledge or to obtain a secondary general or intermediate school certificate …
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Press release No. 099 of 10 March 2022 Number of pupils unchanged in 2021/2022
Roughly 10.9 million pupils are receiving education in schools of general education and vocational schools, and in schools for nurses, midwives, etc. in Germany in school year 2021/2022, according to provisional results. The Federal Statistical …
