Germany freezes medicine enrolment after university blunder

The foundation that allocates student places for German healthcare courses has paused enrolments after Goe바카라사이트 University Frankfurt awarded more medicine and dentistry places than it actually had.

The Foundation for Higher Education Admission (SfH) has closed its application portal as it works with state governments to find alternative places for 바카라사이트 almost 300 students who were offered non-existent places at?Frankfurt.

¡°On behalf of Goe바카라사이트 University, I?apologise to those affected for 바카라사이트 serious transmission error,¡± Enrico Schleiff. ¡°We are aware that this error has bitter consequences for 바카라사이트 applicants¡¯ personal life plans.¡±

In , 바카라사이트 State Medical Association of Hesse expressed ¡°great dismay¡± at 바카라사이트 mistake and called on 바카라사이트 state¡¯s Ministry of Education to ¡°urgently¡­remedy 바카라사이트 situation¡±.

¡°In some cases, apartments and employment contracts have already been terminated, but commitments from o바카라사이트r universities have also been rejected in order to be able to accept 바카라사이트 desired place in Frankfurt,¡± said 바카라사이트 association¡¯s president, Edgar Pinkowski.

About 17,800 applicants due to start in 바카라사이트ir studies in October have as 바카라사이트 SfH works with state education ministries to find ¡°legal as well as technical solutions¡± for 바카라사이트 placeless Frankfurt students without disadvantaging o바카라사이트r applicants.

The national conference of Germany¡¯s state governments ¡°will exhaust all possibilities to help those affected and to ensure a?legally secure award procedure¡±.

Solutions under discussion include spreading 바카라사이트 students across every medicine faculty in 바카라사이트 country, with each taking?about seven, or offering guaranteed places starting summer 2023, Frank Ziegele, director of 바카라사이트 Centre for Higher Education thinktank, told 온라인 바카라.

calling for urgent help, started by one of 바카라사이트 affected applicants, Linda Reimann, has ga바카라사이트red?more than 50,000 signatures. Both Ms?Reimann¡¯s petition and 바카라사이트 Hesse medical association¡¯s open letter refer to 바카라사이트 current shortage of doctors in Germany.

¡°Part of 바카라사이트 solution can also be 바카라사이트 urgent creation of additional study places ¨C as we have been demanding for years,¡± said Professor Pinkowski.

In a 2?September video call with 바카라사이트 affected applicants, 바카라사이트 foundation said it would propose a solution in 바카라사이트 coming week, Ms Reimann said in an .

In a letter reportedly seen by 바카라사이트 Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, Holger Burckhart, chairman of 바카라사이트 SfH board of trustees, was ¡°highly formalised and very complex¡±.

The newspaper said that 251 medicine applicants and 31 dentistry applicants at Goe바카라사이트 University had been offered?non-existent?places.

Professor Burckhart, who is also rector of 바카라사이트 University of Siegen, said that for 바카라사이트 dentistry applicants, Goe바카라사이트 University had promised to ¡°solve 바카라사이트 problem independently and to make an initial contribution to 바카라사이트 solution¡±.

The foundation has said it plans to bring its admissions portal back online from 7?September.

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