November 30, 2001

German Professors' Pay Set to Get an Overhaul

By VIVIEN MARX

Germany is about to pass legislation that would link pay to performance for all 30,000 of the nation's professors.

"This is the most sweeping reform of the university system since the '60s," says Edelgard Bulmahn, the German minister of education and science.

After being passed by the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, this month, the measure is headed in the next few weeks for the second house of parliament, the Bundesrat, where observers say approval is

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