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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 radar of public perception. This could soon change with Berlin's first Adult Education Act, which come...

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. We're 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 government's disease expert, is alarmed. Its president, Lothar Wieler, says the third wave is well unde...

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 parent works in what is defined as a so-called „system relevant profession“. Senator for Youth Servic...

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 Senate had initially planned to send back all graduating classes as early as next week and the lower...