EDUCATION

Despite the pressing need for budget consolidation education and research expenses need to be prioritized in the public budgets. This is because education is the decisive future-resource for Germany. It is the most important precondition for more growth. 

  • Education Monitor 2012 Saxony Wins – Berlin No Longer at the Bottom of the Table

    Saxony has the most capable education system of all 16 federal states. Such is the result of the Education Monitor 2012 (Bildungsmonitor 2012), a comparative study by the Institute for the German Economy Cologne (IW Köln) that was conducted on behalf of the INSM. The Education Monitor, now published for the ninth time, uses 110 indicators to assess how far a federal state improves its educational infrastructure, secures chances to participate and thus strengthens growth forces.

  • Discussion Paper of BI and INSM Ascent by Education

    There are too many school dropouts in Germany and too few people have a finished education. With an equal socioeconomic background migrant children end up in Hauptschulen (secondary modern schools) more than twice as often as children without a migrant background. Individual support is the key for more equal opportunities. To expedite this discussion within educational policy the INSM has published a discussion paper in collaboration with the Berlin-Institute for Population and Development (Berlin-Institut für Bevölkerung und Entwicklung - BI).

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The initiative wants to renew the social market economy of Ludwig Erhard and adjust it to globalization, demographic change and the knowledge society. The INSM stands for a social system of freedom and responsibility.