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In reading, the Finnish students under the 15-year-olds did best in a global comparison.In mathematics and science they also ranked higher than students of any other European country.

A methodological superiority of Finnish teachers hardly serves as an explanation for the demonstrated higher effectiveness of teaching by PISA. Rather, the conditions under which teachers work in Finland, are better than for example in Germany. So, the lessons in Finnish schools are exclusively provided for teaching. While German teachers are also responsible for a lot of things that have nothing or very little to do with teaching, teachers in Finland only have to do their actual job: teaching. For all further tasks others are responsible.

The Finnish system also intends for teachers with large classes, i.e. with classes of more than 20 students, that they are not alone in their classrooms. More specifically: An Assistant works with students who are in need of a more intensive care than the rest of the class. From classroom teachers it is not expected that they fulfill the needs of all the students and even specialist subject teachers who usually teach smaller classes with up to 15 students, do not see it as their task to make the lessons in a way that the last one can follow. At a class size of 15 students no assistant is available, but overwhelmed children receive some kind of special training.

Support programs for women in research and higher education

In spite of the fact that the proportion of women professors at German universities is at a new high - with an unchanged total number of professors, it has risen from 8 to 15 percent since 1995 - women professors are, especially in traditional male domains such as natural sciences and engineering, still under-represented. Whereas in the humanities as well as in the language and cultural studies now over 20 percent of the chairs are occupied by women, the proportion of female professors in mathematics and science is only 10 percent, in engineering, even only 7 percent.
For this reason, federal and state governments agreed to a program that will help to create 200 new positions for professors at German universities over the next five years.
In addition, the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, promotes measures and projects on equal opportunities in universities and research institutions, which are briefly described below:

Center of Excellence Women and Science "(CEWS)
The international oriented Center of Excellence Women and Science (CEWS) promotes equal opportunities for women in science and research. It serves scientific and political bodies or institutions, scientists and companies as the national coordination, information and advisory service. The objective is the increase of the proportion of women in leading positions at universities and research institutions. The database FemConsult, with 7000 records of women scientists, is a key instrument for implementing this goal. Furthermore, the effectiveness of equality policies as well as the attention to gender issues in all areas of science and research are expected to be increased.

Encouragement to Advance

Lots of wild animals such as wild cats, deer, roe deer and wild boars can be observed from a high seat in the National Park Hainich. Some of the animals are extremely shy, so that even rangers often just manage to get sight of them by using hidden cameras

Afrikaans
is a Low Franconian language mainly spoken in South Africa and
Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho,
Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Due to the emigration of many
Afrikaners, there are an additional estimated 300,000

Bambara,
also known as Bamanankan in the language itself, is a language spoken

Es gibt zahlreiche Wege, eine neue Sprache zu erlernen, doch ganz gleich, für welchen man sich entscheidet, unerlässlich für das Erlernen ist die praktische Anwendung.

Theoretisch mag man die Grammatik beherrschen und über einen ausreichend großen Wortschatz verfügen, doch nur eine regelmäßige Konversation in der noch fremden Sprache führt dazu, dass sich beim Umsetzen der Grammatikregeln ein Automatismus einstellt. http://englishretreat.net/