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University Admissions Service Centre: Universities call on the KMK to set fair financial and participation rules
A few days before the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (Kultusministerkonferenz – KMK) decides on the establishment of a new joint facility to deal with the university admission of German applicants, the HRK Senate, meeting in Bonn on Tuesday 12 June, spoke out in favour of creating a University Admissions Service Centre to be jointly run by the universities and the federal states. "This will make it possible to reduce the administrative workload in the universities and will simplify the application process for applicants," explained HRK President Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel, speaking in Berlin today. In particular, the Senate welcomed the fact that each university would be able to decide in accordance with its own requirements whether and to what extent it wished to make use of the Service Centre.The planned financial model was criticised. "This will make acceptance by the universities more difficult, because the burdens produced by the new system are incalculable for them," explained HRK President Wintermantel in view of the coming KMK consultations to be held on 14 and 15 June. "It would be beneficial to further discussions in the universities if the KMK could, at least for a transitional period, set a ceiling for the share of the costs to be borne by the universities. This would substantially increase the willingness on the part of the universities to participate in the Service Centre."
Problems are also seen as far as the voting rights in the decision-making bodies of the planned "Foundation for University Admission" (Stiftung zur Hochschulzulassung) are concerned. "We hope that the participation rights for universities and the state will eventually be more balanced than they are presently planned to be," explained the HRK President.
As soon as the KMK's final decision has been announced, discussions and consultations will continue in the HRK decision-making bodies and within the universities themselves. "I expect that we will have the decisions of the member universities on whether they intend to participate in the Service Centre at the latest by the next Members Assembly to be held in Berlin in November," concluded Margret Wintermantel.
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