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| NGSA Hon. Secretary:- Mrs Jenny Jones, 18 Leomansley Road, Lichfield, Staffordshire WS13 8AW |
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January 2000
Grammar Schools and the German System
The German system of secondary education is widely acknowledged as one of the most successful in Europe.At secondary level it has four man types of school, and grammar schools (Gymnasien) are the single largest type, accounting for more than 50% of the secondary school population (more than four times the number of pupils at comprehensive schools).
The governing coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Alliance 90 has no plans to later this leading position of the grammar schools which remain very popular among parents.
Primary school teachers make recommendations to parents about what type of school their child should move to. But parents' wishes count heavily in the final decision.
Not least for this reason the number of pupils at grammar school has risen steadily in recent years, just last year by some 24,000.
The Teachers' Union is more concerned over evidence that comprehensive schools are not catering to the needs of the able and very able pupils, and this has resulted in a move in Berlin to convert half of the comprehensive schools into other types of schools.
Roger Woods
Professor of German
University of Nottingham - UK
January 2000
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