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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>OK, off
course this is silly.</span></font><font color=navy><span lang=EN-GB
style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But, just as an idea that it isn’t
that perfect the other way round, just my experience with business
administration:<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Germany has now mostly switched to
the BA/MBA-System following the Bologna-Decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Therefore I would think that I can
now use the new titles as a substitute for my old one (the degree I got 17
years ago). I cannot. Silly Germans that they accepted this . . <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Let me explain: <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The old system in Germany was: 13
years of school, then at the university at least two years to get an Vordiplom
(Pre-Diploma) in economics, then at least two years to get an Diploma in
Business Administration. That’s what I got. A “Dipl. Kfm”. In the same time
someone from the US would have a PhD and teaching at the university himself.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Now we have Bologna and you would
think that the “old” degrees would translate like this to the “new” ones:
Vordiplom = BA and Diplom = MBA. After that Dr./PhD<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>This way my degree - which is the
highest university-degree except the Doktor - would translate to the highest
new degree. It doesn’t!<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>If I want to make a PhD I have to
start again going to university and make an MBA!!!! Because after the Bologna-Decisions
no international university in Europe accepts the old German degree! <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Even better: If I would like to make
a Doktor at some other university in Europe, I can’t! Because you need an MBA
for that. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I liked the idea to have one kind of
system to have easy international interchange. But are we nuts to kick ourselves
out of the system?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Stephan <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span class=EmailFormatvorlage18><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>www.Vreedom.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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