Archive for March, 2008

Everything you need to know for studying in Germany

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

When one person speaks about the verb “to study”, it comes to your mind a great number of remembers and thoughts. One of these can be the place where we have studied. Because of it, this topic has so much importance in the future of a person. This is because if a correct learning is carried out, in the future there will be able to be enjoyed the benefits of a quite and calm way. For this reason, many young men of different countries of the world travel to other nations for looking a better academic future. An option that for many people could be the best one is the German. And thanks to the educational evolution that has had this nation in the last decades thousands of students travel to its cities to continue with their studies, at the university, college, etc.

In fact, the first thing that it is necessary to bear in mind is if you need a visa to be able to travel to the German country. The question can be answered saying that the citizens of the European Union do not need this document to come to Germany. In addition, we must not forget that these are not the only ones that have any more facilities to be able to enter to German lands. The people, who have the Honduran, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swiss and American nationality, also can enter Germany without having a visa. The documents that are asked for the obtaining of the visa must be delivered with in time in order to know what to do in case of unexpected problems that could be late or complicate the travel. The suitable thing in these cases is that there is looked the help and the support of the authorities that work in the embassies and in the German consulates.

Likewise, another detail that is important of mentioning due to the relevancy that has is the one that links itself to the learning of the German. Some of the travelers already handle the German language without any class of complication since they studied it in any specializing institute of their country. Nevertheless, there are others who travel course to territory without knowing a German language or in fact, with few knowledge of this one.

Because of it, to avoid any problem that can cause problems during the classes is advisable that the German is learned in some center of languages of the city where the person should be living. Nevertheless, the problem can be solved since in the university area the great majority of students use the English as language to communicate between them. Though, the option to learn the German we said already in an institute it can complement in a perfect way to the knowledge that day after day are learned in the university centers.

On the other hand, it is necessary to indicate that the students, who should want to study in Germany, must approach in the first instance the centers of census and those for tourists. In the first one, it is necessary the address, and in second one you have to obtained the permission that supports the permanency in German lands. An advice that is recommended is not to send the documents in its original edition, only there must be sent copies that could be authenticated by the educational German authorities. Another detail that it must be mentioned is the one that relates to the fact of if taxes must be paid in Germany. It means if the young men along his stay have to pay some type of fee. In fact, the people who travel for less than six months are exempt from paying them. Though, also it there can be people who could remain in more time in German territory.

In short, it is possible to come to the conclusion that to study in Germany is the only opportunity of that it must be taken advantage to the maximum for study a career education. In fact, this country is sure and the foreign people are treated by warmth and are welcome without any kind of problem. Because of it, you do not have to fear to do this kind of travel course to this European nation. There, the important thing is to try to improve the knowledge that you already have and to learn much more.

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Germany researchers affirm that the tasks out of the school are not positive

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

When I found this news, I could not avoid surprise. I always thought that education that could be given after the normal schedule of classes was positive. But it seems that I was wrong. Though, it is not possible to generalize. Some time ago, maybe last year or beginning this one, German researchers, more precisely, of the University Center of Dresden, discovered that the educational labors that are produced after the normal classes are not effective. A group of pedagogues of this university affirmed that the productivity diminishes a great extent when the children and the young men meet involved in this type of education.

In fact, it has demonstrated that the students that have high qualifications exams did not show any kind of improvement in spite of having more hours of class after the established ones for the school.

It is necessary to say, that the extra classes could be harmful for the students since often they have to take some memoirist processes that do not do anything well for them. It is necessary to indicate, that it is preferable the quality for optimizing the quantity. Not because they study more hours, the level is going to be better. This is for students who have good, regular or bad qualifications. In fact, the important thing is to value and to take advantage to the maximum hours what they have for the application of the education program.

On the other hand, there are many topics that could be reinforced. For example, the classic complications that they present with the learning of the mathematics. Nevertheless, the most advisable thing in this case is that the children and the young men could feel that an environment of flexibility exists with regard to what they learn.

This is why, it is not necessary to press students in order to study more hours or take more subjects that mean an extra hours. What it is necessary to do is to reaffirm what they learn in the classes of the school. And what they do not understand, reaffirm again and again, as many times as could be necessary, to avoid future complications and delays.
Often, many things are not understood and the teacher keeps teaching in a normal way. And it can appear in individual way or group of many students. Which is why, it is always necessary to be attentive to the doubts and problems that the students could present. If one of them does not understand any topic especially what it is necessary to do, so it is better to reinforce this weak point in order to overcome it.

Nevertheless, it has not to be allowed to be late too much because it would be harmful to his learning process. In fact, the ideal thing would be that through a series of educational mechanisms, disadvantages could overcome for preventing him from continuing his studies in a calm way, primary or secondary. Another detail that also is important of mentioning is the fact that the children do not produce when they do not understand anything and spite of it, the teacher wants to teach more and more. So, it turns out illogical to think about the idea of teaching some matter without having the sufficient aptitude to understand it. The study must not be forced, if it is students will present problems. It is required calm, patience and tranquility.

This role both the family parents and the teachers have to fulfill it. For this reason, after a series of researches, these German pedagogues came to the conclusion of that the extras studies are not beneficial. It is enough to see this fact in Germany to realize that this situation is practically slightly common in this European nation. Just reviewing the case of the region of Saxony it is possible to understand totally everything has exposed.

In fact, 60% of the students of this zone of Germany receive several times a week this kind of classes known as “out-of-school” or “particular classes”. For this reason, when you watch this phenomenon in many places of the German territory, this group of researchers of the University of Dresden decide investigate this fact. And they came to the conclusion mentioned along this text. It means, classes given out of the school schedule do not carry to any class of benefit.

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