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Andreas Glas and Viktoria Spinrad
The reform is “a small step for humanity, but a big one for the universities in Bavaria,” said Science Minister Markus Blume (CSU). But above all, the controversial university reform was a difficult birth. It took two and a half years for the cabinet to approve the bill on Tuesday. The reform is part of the high-tech agenda, a prestige project by Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), which is intended to strengthen science and research. The result is a complex document, 132 articles on 73 pages, which is intended to renew Bavaria’s higher education law for the first time since 2006. The amendment is entitled “Higher Education Innovation Act” and is intended to replace the previous Higher Education and Higher Education Personnel Act – provided the state parliament agrees. A selection of central content, without claiming to be complete.