[Equal] Kollegin sucht Hilfe

[Katharina von Salis]

liebe equals,
voila eine Anfrage an die in Gender Studies ausgebildeten KollegInnen.
Es sendet warme Gruesse
Kvs
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>Original-Recipient: rfc822;vonsalis at dplanet.ch
>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:21:20 +0300
>From: Terhi Saarikoski <terhi.saarikoski at helsinki.fi>
>To: eq-uni at helsinki.fi
>Subject: EQ-UNI: Fwd: BOUNCE eq-uni at helsinki.fi:    Non-member 
>submission from ["B.Wahrig" <B.Wahrig at tu-braunschweig.de>]  
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>Sender: owner-eq-uni at helsinki.fi
>Reply-To: Terhi Saarikoski <terhi.saarikoski at helsinki.fi>
>
>From: B.Wahrig at tu-braunschweig.de
>
>Subject: selection of students and gender equality
>
>Dear list members,
>I belong to the Commission for Affirmative Action of the Technical
>University of Braunschweig and am simultaneously Dean (only with respect
>to academic teaching) of the pharmacy department. Our university is
>presently discussing novel methods of recruiting students. So far,
>pharmacy students have mostly been recruited in a centralised procedure
>following a numerus clausus, and other disciplines have followed the
>same principle on a local level. Hence the main selection criterion so
>far has been performance in the two final classes in school. Now the
>centralized selection procedures are about to be abolished or at least
>to diminish in their importance for the allocation of students in case
>of a restricted offer of studying opportunities. In Lower Saxony, the
>government has decreed that universities apply additional selection
>procedures apart from sorting students by  the average of their school
>marks. Other regional governments have done this earlier, the rest will
>follow in short time. I would like to know from those of you whose
>universities have their own selection criteria:
>  - how they are applied
>  - if there are special problems with certain kinds of selection
>procedures in terms of gender equality. I am expecially thinking of 
>interviews which are said to be more difficult to master for women if
>they do not have the adequate self-confidence and/or training
>  - how the local selection is coordinated region- or nationwide. Is
>there something like UCAS in Britain in your countries? Does that function?
>- which are the positive criteria of "selection" besides school marks?
>I would very much appreciate some short hints - maybe you can indicate
>me websites or addresses where I can collect more information.
>Thank you so much and best wishes, Bettina Wahrig
>
>
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>Prof. Dr. Bettina Wahrig
>Abteilung für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften mit Schwerpunkt
>Pharmaziegeschichte
>TU Braunschweig
>Beethovenstr. 55
>D-38106 Braunschweig


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