Education in Saxony-Anhalt: school qualifications are below the national average!

Education in Saxony-Anhalt: school qualifications are below the national average!

Halle, Deutschland - hall. A current evaluation of the State Statistical Office shows that Saxony-Anhalt performs well when it comes to school qualifications. As of the cut-off date of the census on May 15, 2022, 91.8 % of the approximately 1.8 million people aged 15 and over had a general school leaving certificate in Saxony-Anhalt. This number is significantly below the nationwide average of 93.1 %. Only 4.9 % of the Saxony-Anhalt did not have a school leaving certificate, which corresponds to 90,210 people. The federal state thus ranks in 6th place compared to other federal states in Germany, regarding the proportion of people without school leaving certificate.

An interesting aspect of the data is the level of education of the older population. 582,840 people, that is 31.8 %, achieved their highest school qualification at a polytechnic secondary school of the GDR. This is the highest proportion of all of Germany, which is due to the historical circumstances that influenced education policy and offers in the new federal states.

technical college entrance qualification and Abitur

The statistics also show that 24.0 % of the population in Saxony-Anhalt completed the school career with the technical college entrance qualification or the Abitur. This is the lowest value among all federal states and far below the German average of 34.9 %. However, the situation among the younger Saxony-Anhalers up to 30 years is more gratifying: Here is the proportion that has reached the Abitur or the technical college entrance qualification, with remarkable 40.8 %.

Another detail that emerges from the survey is the distribution of school qualifications among the different nationalities. 39.5 % of the population with foreign nationality gained technical college or high school. In comparison, the German population was only 23.3 %. Every third foreign citizen remained without school, while the German population is only 3.8 % without a degree.

claims about gender differences in the training biography are also proven by the data. While the German population has practically no gender differences in relation to school qualifications, the results of people with foreign nationality show that women are more successful: 44.2 % of women reach the technical college entrance qualification or the Abitur, while the value for men is 35.0 %. Furthermore, significantly more men (31.9 %) had no conclusion compared to women (26.6 %).

These structured findings offer a comprehensive insight into the educational situation in Saxony-Anhalt and help to sound future educational policy decisions. For more information and analyzes on this topic, it is worth taking a look at the detailed data of the h@llanzeiger .