27.06.2017 | Waitress rather than take out a loan: fewer students in debt
The number of student loan agreements signed in 2016 dropped significantly compared to previous years, to 44,000. Although all of the loans investigated in the Student Loan Test 2017 were assessed as being reliable, experts recommend exercising caution. This is particularly the case with new private loans that call themselves “student loans” – these offer much poorer conditions.

09.06.2017 | CHE kurz + kompakt: new information format for prospective students
Tips, checklists and a brief six-page overview for prospective students: the CHE Centre for Higher Education now offers a new series of online publications on selected topics. The new series called CHE kurz + kompakt starts out with issues on student loans, part-time study, and the differences between universities and universities of applied sciences.

31.05.2017 | All-day education: commonplace at school, but not yet entrenched in teacher training
For many teachers, working at an all-day school has already become a reality, resulting automatically in collaboration with other professional groups in education. When training to become a teacher, however, students learn only very little about the issue of all-day education, as a publication issued by Monitor Lehrerbildung has revealed. Experts call for future teachers to be prepared more effectively for the requirements of multiprofessional teamwork and all-day teaching whilst at university.