Re: [edu-team] country studies / school system overview

Hello all,

since I continue an old discussion, I allow me to quote quite
extensivley:

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:29:38AM +0100, Bjoern Schiessle wrote:
> Thomas Jensch <[email protected]> writes:
> > since we are an european organisation, we need to get an overview about how 
> > the countries and regions handle ICT in the education branch.
> > Please share insights from your country. 
> >
> > How is the school system organised? Is it very hierachical so that the
> > only way of sucess is to get in contact with the minister? Or could
> > the headmasters decide about ICT quite freely?
> 
> In Germany it's afaik quite different between the different federal
> states. Once a teacher form Baden Württemberg told me that the federal
> ministry decides what software is used. On the other hand a teacher from
> Berlin told me that they can decide mostly by their own.
> 
Yes, I don't know about all federal states in Germany, but
Baden-Württemberg is the only state I know that more or less mandates
the software to the schools.

From what I found out from Thüringen, the schools are more or less
independent on what kind of software they use, but the hardware is
being purchased by the city or county (Schulträger). The money for
training for the teachers comes from the edu ministry of the federal
state.

And I think Hessen and Rheinland-Pfalz handle things quite the same.

At least this is how I understood it. If anybody knows better, please
jump in!

Reading the study [1] Karsten pointed us to last year, Austrian
schools seem to be quite independent in their ICT decisions, too.

Greetings,

Guido

[1] http://www.osor.eu/case_studies/docs/IDABC-OSOR-case%20study-desktop4education-Final.pdf

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