All-day schools. Time for more.

The capital investment program "Zukunft Bildung und Betreuung" is a federal measure to support the Länder in building up and expanding all-day schooling in Germany. The program is one step in an educational reform supported by federal and state governments. To date, about 3.000 schools profit from the capital investment program.

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Education needs time. If children spend the whole day in school, teachers have more time for challenging and supporting  them, thus improving the quality of education. All-day school provides scope for creative work and for individual support of pupils. Schooling is naturally understood in other countries as all-day schooling. Compared to other countries, the school system in Germany consists almost exclusively of half-day schools.

On 12th of may 2003, federal and state governments signed an administrative agreement for the capital spending program "Zukunft Bildung und Betreuung" (future education and care). The federal government allocates 4 billion Euros until 2007 for setting up new and expanding existing all-day schools in the German Länder. The goal is to offer all-day schooling all over Germany according to the large demand of parents and pupils.

One year after its beginning, the capital spending program "Zukunft Bildung und Betreuung" has grown into a successful program for both federal and state levels. The states finance the additional personnel, the federal government finances the capital investment for an attractive all-day school.

The information campaign "Time fo more" addresses parents, teachers and pupils and aims to encourage them to advocate conversion of their own school into an all-day school. Half a day is too short for explaining the world.

On 28th of june, 2004, the thousandth all-day school supported with federal funds opened up in Duisburg. In 2004, all Länder have submitted proposals for a total of 2.808 all-day schools. Combined with the schools already supported, more than 3.000 all-day school participate in the capital spending program.

More information is provided at http://www.ganztagsschulen.org/.

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