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Hello and welcome to education today, I'm Wu You in Beijing. Joining me in the studio is Farrah.
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Hello. So let's continue our trip around the world. Today we will take you to Germany.
That was a very famous rock and roll song from Germany and today let's talk about the latest information from Germany education field. Let's go beyond just simply uinversity entrance and international student support and talk about PhD programs in Germany.
That's right. Getting your PhD is also as important as going in to do your postgrad etc.
So how do you get in to a PhD programme in Germany?
Great question. First of all you have to make sure that your Masters is endorsed or authorised so it's recognised by German education standards. And then you need to go to the DAAD website, which we've mentioned before in previous episodes
The DAAD is German education student service?
Correct. So you need to go onto their website, you'll find all the helpful information about universities in Germany and anyone from the DAAD office can direct you if you still need assistance. It also depends on what you want your PhD to be about. So there's a list of universities that are available and they'll give you the type of school, the location, which city they're in and how many semesters it'll take you to get your PhD.
So what is available?
Again it depends on what you want your thesis to be on. So go through the options available and make the right choice. Once you pick your professor, if you choose to do your PhD through a structured programme, then go ahead and just apply and best of luck.
What options are available to do a PhD?
There are two options that you can get your PhD in Germany. So first you can chose to do it on your own, completely independantly.Or you can go into a structured PhD programme, so that means you're attending classes and getting credits and things like that. So those are the two options that you can get you PhD.
And does it cost anything to get your PhD in Germany?
Yes and no. Again it depends. Like I said, there is that list and you can see all the universities and it depends on what you want to study. So some of them will ask for a minimal fee but some of them are tuition free.
Well at the on going China International Education Expo, I've talked with some Chinese students who are planning to go to German universities soon. They're ...(name spelling at 2:55 please)
"Actually I came here for...about the German Universities application.
Do you need to learn German before you go to German universities because they can teach you in English?
Actually, most Germans find it hard to speak English. You can't ask the professors to teach you in English because they're actually the original Germans so if you really want to talk to a professor, if you want to get a higher grade in German, got a good understanding of the entire classes then you've got to speak good German so they've got an assesment you should learn the German test and you should pass the test of DAF so it's all reasonable so you got to do these things before you do the application.
So what kind of major have you chosen? Is that major only taught in German?
Well actually if you want to apply to a German school the masters degree that means you should apply the major that you learned in China. If you learn the major you got in China is engineering for example you ought to apply for the same major in German. There is no cross major applying in Germany. They want the specific major skills. So actually it's very strict applying major in Germany.
So how long does it take for you guys to study German? Do you study in China or do you need to study over there?
Actually we've started only three or four months and we don't speak really good German but it's kind of hard but we got a good German here in Beijing and when we plan to pass the test in the end we've got a good German spoken language we just can entirely handle this language.
Can you two show us a little bit?
Guten Morgen, Gute Nacht.
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Guten Morgen.
Guten Morgen! It's actually amazing to see that they're trying so hard to learn the language. I wish them best of luck because I studied German and it's not easy. But speaking of language, I just wanted to say about the PhD a lot of people are asking "What about my thesis? Can I do it in German or in English?" you can if you go on a structured programme you have the option to do it in English.
As we reported from the DAAD, German student education service, I've also talked Katherine .... name!! :) Marketing director of DAAD Beijing office.
"Around how many Chinese students are there studying in Germany right now?
Around 30,000 Chinese students are studying in Germany right now.
Since not long ago we reported news that Germany are offering free tuition fees to local students and also international students. Have you heard of that?
Actually there are no tuition fees for German students and also for international students so there are no tuition fees. But actually now we only have scholarships for postdoc students. There are no scholarships for master or PhD students, only for postdoc. So after your PhD you can just apply for postdoc scholarship programme. This is a joint programme between DAAD and the China scholarship counsel, like the Chinese DAAD, and it's a joint programme. If you just go to a private university or take a special master programme which are taught in English or so on, there might be sometimes a tuition fee but mainly there's no tuiton fee for bachelor and for master programmes.
Is DAAD offering scholarships to Chinese students and how can they apply for the scholarships like you talked about the post doc?
Yeah we only have the postdoc programme and they can apply to our office in Beijing and also to the China scholarship counsel and there w
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