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12/1/2013

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Marion, was denkst du über dieses Video von Yale? 



What an amazing video! Now I really have an idea of how everything works at Yale. 
I think the idea of the residential colleges is just awesome :D

The University of Education is educating teachers for primary and secondary schools but also teachers for special needs education. There are also a few Bachelor and Master programs, but just in the education field, which means that students have to decide before the first semester what they want to study.
But there is not just the University of Education in Heidelberg, but also the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, which was founded as one of the first universities in Europe in 1386. This is where most of Heidelbergs students study (29,000).
Since there are ten different universities and colleges in Heidelberg there is one organisation for students which is called “Studentenwerk”, you may translate it as student services, but as far as I know it is quite different from the student services in the US. The Studentenwerks business is to help the students finance their studies with special loans or scholarships. The special student loans look for example like this: depending on how wealthy you and your family are, you get up to 600€ monthly for the standard period of your studies, four years after the end of your studies you may pay back not more than 10,000€ in at least three rates. The Studentenwerk is also in charge of the different cafeterias in Heidelberg. All over the city are four great dining halls which provide the students with all kinds of food. There are also certain university sport options, which are for all the students in Heidelberg. For further informations you may visit this link:
http://www.hochschulsport.issw-hd.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17&Itemid=175

When it comes to student housing, students usually have to go to so called “WG-Castings”, several flat views or have the chance to get a student residence from the “Studentenwerk” of Heidelberg.  But there are only 13% that get the chance of living in a dorm in a student residence, since there are almost 33,000 students in Heidelberg. The rest of the students have to go on apartment-hunting. 






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