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A university faculty can confer the title to an academic who has a higher doctoral degree—usually in the form of a habilitation. [6] The title, Privatdozent, as such does not imply a salaried appointment; it merely denotes permission to teach and examine independently at the conferring faculty without a professorial appointment.
This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...
The German International Abitur (Deutsches Internationales Abitur - DIA) GISNY confers upon its graduates both the New York State high school diploma and the German International Abitur, known in German as the Deutsche Internationale Abitur, or DIA. The DIA grants students the possibility of attending competitive colleges and universities ...
The concept of the Ultralingua dictionary software began in 1996, when a small group of professors from Carleton College had the idea of creating a French dictionary that allowed the user to look up words on the fly with drag-and-drop technology, to and from a work in progress. The dictionary program was first developed for the Apple Macintosh ...
Sauerkraut (also Kraut, which in German would mean cabbage in general)—fermented cabbage. Schnapps (German spelling: Schnaps)—a distilled alcoholic drink (hard liquor, booze). Schwarzbier—a dark lager beer. Seltzer—carbonated water, a genericized trademark that derives from the German town Selters, which is renowned for its mineral springs.
The DAAD itself does not offer programs of study or courses, but awards competitive, merit-based grants for use toward study and/or research in Germany at any of the accredited German institutions of higher education. It also awards grants to German students, doctoral students, and scholars for studies and research abroad.
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Wissenschaft (lit. "knowledgeship") is a German-language term that embraces scholarship, research, study, higher education, and academia. Wissenschaft translates exactly into many other languages, e.g. vetenskap in Swedish or nauka in Polish, but there is no exact translation in modern English.