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Dundorf to Assist N&D in Education Overhaul

October 5568

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DUNBURG, ODERVELD - For quite the time now, the Dundorfian government highest expenditure has always been in Education and Culture, funding a public school system, financing cultural initiatives and making Dundorf's universities high-quality and affordable for all. According to a Government report, access to education and low abstenteeism are the areas in which the Dundorfian educational system is the best, reporting virtually obstacles - on the other hand, language barriers for students coming from a foreign background, represents a problem in the Dundorfian-language centered system as well as the lack of trained teachers. Even with this problem, foreign background students still report good results at the completion of the educational cycle. 

The status of the Dundorfian education, overall, was considered to be pretty strong by our Narikatonian friends that the Education Ministry in Bannerhafen asked to start a new field of cooperation with us on education. Dundorf maintains one of its International Schools (ICI) in the Dual Republic, but Ms. Clenonberg's Government wants more: staff exchanges, (including teachers' workshops in the respective countries, students exchanges and joint training) with help in drafting a more modern curriculum. The Education ministry agreed to this framework, and this week, officials from both countries already met to discuss work on the curriculum. In Dundorf the curriculum is drafted for the most part by the Federal Government, but leaves some space to the State Governments particularly in regards of local history, local dialects and other matters - it remains to be seen if the Dual Republican officials will adopt this way considering the bilingual nature of the country.

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"From N&D", says the Education Minister, "we hope to learn on how to make our system more open to different languages and culture, given how they integrate Narik and Dundorfian, I believe this alone would make a difference for many students of Narik descent, and other foreign ones." As for the proposed staff exchances, the two Governments will begin to work in order to make it a reality already in this school year, and to complete this new chapter of Bierpakt cooperation.

@NordenhausenAllgemeineZeitung