UNIGLOBALE: Your topic is educational equality. How would you like to promote this?
JW: “Educational equity is an important issue for me. I was the first generation to study myself. Enabling more people to have access to higher education, even without a high school diploma, is essential given demographic developments. But people also want their working lives to be more flexible. To make this possible, we need fairer transitions between vocational and academic education, in both directions. But this can only be achieved if knowledge that has already been acquired is mutually recognized and taken into account.”
UNIGLOBALE: You want to create more study places. What are your plans to combat the high number of dropouts?
JW: “By expanding the university pact, we have already financed a lot of study places. Fortunately, the dropout rate is falling, but that is not enough. We also want to target the dropouts themselves and win them over for vocational training. For example, anyone who has dropped out of their mechanical engineering studies must be given the opportunity to have their academic achievements credited towards their locksmith training. We want to achieve this more flexible transitions.”
UNIGLOBALE: Why do you think young students should go abroad for a semester or two?
JW: “Because it not only opens up new perspectives professionally and culturally, but because spending time abroad is also a lot of fun and friendships for life are often formed. I can only recommend it."
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Christiane Kürschner.
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