Europe | Schuling around
Germany is flunking the education test
Its scores are heading down, as its schools fail to adapt
|Berlin, Cologne and Dortmund
FROM MAY 1st, the proud holders of doctorates will no longer be allowed to put the title Dr in front of their name in German passports. For a country obsessed with qualifications—Prof Drs are fairly common and even Dr Drs not so rare—this decline in standing may be hard. But it is not so hard as the decline in German educational standards.
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