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Anja Steinbeck, President of Düsseldorf University, is “University Manager of the Year 2020” – Special Award goes to Sabine Kunst, President of Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Professor Dr. Anja Steinbeck, President of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, is “University Manager of the Year 2020”. With this award, the weekly [...]

Student grants, scholarships, etc.: CHECK on student finance 2020

The student population in Germany has increased by almost a million since 2005, but the number of student grant recipients has decreased [...]

Master’s students satisfied with coronavirus crisis management at their university

The need to switch completely to online teaching owing to the coronavirus pandemic was a major challenge for higher education institutions (HEIs) [...]

KfW Student Loan: coronavirus crisis aid shown to have shortcomings in CHE Student Loan Test

The number of new student loans taken out in Germany has fallen by almost half in the past five years, despite an [...]

Guest article by Frank Ziegele on the financing of higher education institutions during the coronavirus crisis

Until now, Germany’s higher education institutions (HEIs) have come through the crisis better than their counterparts in other countries. The starting situation [...]