Number of students without Abitur has more than doubled in ten years
The number of students without a formal higher education entrance qualification has reached an all-time high in Germany: more than 70,000 people…
Peer-to-peer departmental consultation focuses on human medicine in 2023/2024
The digital transformation has become an indispensable part of medicine and the medical professions. This also implies changes in medical education. For…
Good ideas for the Federal Ministry of Education that do not cost a cent
In their assessment of Bettina Stark-Watzinger’s first year in office, many education experts would, above all, like to see more money. In…
Chemistry is the subject with the highest PhD ratio
In the discipline of chemistry, the number of successful doctorates is almost as high as the number of Master’s degrees. Most doctoral…
More than one in four universities not recognisable as such from their name
Prospective students can currently choose from more than 21,000 study programmes at over 400 higher education institutions (HEIs) in Germany. The names…
Call for papers to the GfHf Annual Conference
The “Interaction between Higher Education Research and Higher Education Development: Empiricism, Transfer and Impact” is the topic of this year’s conference of…
Reorganisation of the CHE management team
Heike Hepermann and Ulrich Müller were made Prokuristen (authorised signatories) of CHE on 1 January 2023. Ulrich Müller and Executive Director Frank…
Next GfHf Annual Conference to be held in Osnabrück on 11-13 September 2023
The CHE Centre for Higher Education and Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences are set to host the next Annual Conference of the Society…
CHECK Studienfinanzierung (CHECK student finance): take-up of BAföG funding differs widely from one federal state to another
The three-party “traffic light” coalition has already taken the first steps in reforming the Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG), with more to…
Professor Dr Walter Rosenthal is “University Manager of the Year 2022”
Professor Dr Walter Rosenthal, President of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, is “University Manager of the Year 2022”. With this award, the weekly…
CHE Ranking 2022 of Master’s programmes in engineering sciences and psychology
The CHE Ranking with the latest assessments by Master’s students is now available online. Subjects from the field of engineering sciences and…
Software developers can also be trained in a completely different way
Computer science is one of the most popular degree programmes in Germany. However, CHE’s latest DataCHECK on the area of computer science…