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Teachers at John Lennon feel left out in the cold by the city's education department. They want vaccinations now, not later.

Berlin to boost lifelong learning The city-state is getting its own continuing education law. Artikel anhören Photo: Thabo ThindiA language class at a Volkshochschule in Mitte Berlin - An insight has finally entered the mainstream: a successful knowledge-based society needs people who are willing to update their skills throughout their lives, and it needs to ensure that they have the opportunities to do so. The institutions that make lifelong learning possible have often been beneath the rad...

Open, closed, open, closed - Berlin prepares for the third wave The seven-day incidence is rising, a third wave is building. Schools, shops and soon restaurants are to open. Sensible or a bad idea? Artikel anhören Photo: ImagoClick & meet looks like business as usual. Berlin - Shops, hairdressers and museums have just reopened. Were even allowed to jet off to Mallorca again. But any hopes that a normal life will resume by Easter are rapidly imploding. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the gove...

The allocation of Nursery School “emergency care” places in Berlin is being reorganised. These rules now apply: Children from one parent-families in “emergency situations”, and families in “social emergencies” are entitled to a place. Now there is a third group: whilst up to now it was only about “extraordinary” need, from this point on: a parent’s profession will also play a part. Children will be entitled to an emergency nursery school place, if one paren...

Massive protest in Berlin against plans to reopen schools Teachers, parents and students have responded with massive protests against the plans of the Berlin Senate (state executive) to largely reopen schools amid rising infection figures. But despite this opposition and clear scientific evidence that schools are a major driver of the pandemic, the state government of the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Left Party is sticking to the herd immunity policy in the interests of big business. The ...

Todays corona news in 60 seconds +++ School plan delayed +++ Choice between vaccines? +++ Lauterbachs "super summer" +++ The stats +++  Elizabeth Rushton, 11.1.2021 - 10:00 Uhr Artikel anhören Photo: Sabine Gudath Take me to "super summer", please: taxis line up outside Arena Treptow to bring patients to and from their corona jabs. Berlin - Every weekday at 11am come to the Berliner Zeitung English Edition for the corona/Covid-19 news at a glance. �� The latest corona stats for Be...

Berlin news update: Monday, January 11 Expand Berlins government has committed €3.3 million to clean up the citys streets this year. Photo: Leon Seibert / Unsplash 15-kilometre travel limit planned, all Covid traffic lights on red, Müller admits schools mistakes Tagesspiegel reports. According to the strategy agreed by the federal government and state leaders this month, an index of 200 or above requires the introduction of a citywide ban on people travelling further than 15 kilom...

Kitas, explained For Berlin parents, the discussion over when and how schools and daycare will open has been incredibly confusing. An explainer, in plain English. Maurice Frank, 7.1.2021 - 16:03 Uhr Artikel anhören Empy classroom at a Neukölln school.  Berlin - Earlier this week, Germanys "hard lockdown" was extended till the end of January. Online lessons resumed this week and schools will begin reopening step-by-step on Monday, 11 January. But Berlins plan is complicated. Berlins st...

More than 30,000 daily infections in Germany and war-like conditions in hospitals The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are becoming more dramatic every day in Germany. After a new record death toll of 952 was reported on Wednesday, the number of those infected also reached a new all-time high on Thursday, exceeding the 30,000 mark for the first time. Across Germany, the positive test rate is currently around 12 percent—more than double the value that epidemiologists cite as the threshold beyo...

Germany’s “hard lockdown” protects corporations at expense of lives On Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of Germany’s federal states announced a joint resolution that the media unanimously called a “hard lockdown.” But the measures do not go anywhere near what is needed to bring the pandemic under control. The focus is not on protecting lives but corporate profits. For example, large factories can remain open without exception, even if they produce nonessential...