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Some public institutions are very well disciples of Neudeutsch, e.g. universities. And when they haven't bought fully into it, they are critisised as not sufficiently international.
And there are daily issues; is it necessary to give a talk in English, when there is only one person, that doesn't speak German, despite living for 5 years already in Germany? Have post docs that can't speak German the same teaching duties as those, who can? And if they have not, why aren't they required to learn German in the time the others do their teaching duties?
And names of Institutions; why is the new facility of the Rechenzentrum called 'Steinbuch Centre for Computing' and not 'Steinbuch Zentrum für maschinelles Rechnen'?

I know of somebody who studied one year in Spain. They didn't even have web pages in English. Of course a German student, who wants to study in Spain, learns Spanish, a student who wants to study in France, learns French, a student who wants to study in Sweden, learns Swedish, and a student who wants to study in China, learns Chinese. Only the German universities 'lack internationality', when you can't get your diploma or master in English.
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Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 11:08:00 AM EST
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Some public institutions are very well disciples of Neudeutsch, e.g. universities.

Well, I have to rely on my ideology there: I think that is a consequence of market philosophy at universities.

...lots of things more or less agreed on...

Only the German universities 'lack internationality', when you can't get your diploma or master in English.

On that one, I have to disillusion you -- from what I know, this trend is pretty widespread. In Budapest, the technical university and the medical university have English courses, too. Well -- in fact, both have German courses, too -- I brought these up because once I travelled to Vienna with three girls from Bavaria who studied here -- and, at the same time, were hopeless Anglo-American fans.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 02:06:45 PM EST
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In Italy, the University of Bolzano does a lot of its teaching in English. Of course, this is a special case, with English being sort of politically neutral, though students are expected to take courses in both German and Italian as well (they also have some limited support for Ladin).
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Dec 5th, 2008 at 06:22:16 PM EST
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