During this weekend a Conference on education took place in Stuttgart with the presence of Maite Mola, EL vice president, and Sissy Velissariou, from Synaspismos. Being both members of EL Education Working Group, a strong based perspective of the Educational policies in Europe, namely in the Bologna Process was debated in the event organized by Die Linke.

Nicole Gohlke, MP from Die Linke, chaired the meeting that has focused Education at the national level and on universities and the implementation of Bologna. Both the reform processes themselves and the political conflicts around it, linked to the political situation that is being lived in these Southern Countries, were matters of an intense discussion.

The House of Trade Unions of Stuttgart has therefore claimed, between different European voices that lively participated in the conference during the weekend that “We want the educational republic!”, presenting simultaneously a set of Perspectives that can go beyond the budget cuttings.

Gesine Lötzsch, Head of Die Linke, also spoke on the follow ups of black-yellow governments policy for the educational system and the alternatives of the Left Party. On the same panel, Michael Hartmann (TU Darmstadt) mentioned the “Voucher instead education”, and the standpoints of preschool education.

The integration of the gymnasiasts, the right on vocational training, the lifelong learning in crisis and the economization instead of democratization in independent schools in times of lean finance for education were other of the subjects examined by the members of parliament, unionists, pedagogues and scientists.