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	<description>English Life in the Ruhr-Metropolis, the community of 53 cities and towns in the heart of the German state of Northrhine-Westfalia which will be Europeans Cultural Capital 2010 is covered by this blog. The larger cities of this area are Duisburg, Essen, Bochum and Dortmuind as well as Oberhausen, Mülheim, Herne, Gelsenkirchen and Bottrop.</description>
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		<title>Sunny Pre-School in Gelsenkirchen and soon in Bochum</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2010/06/sunny-pre-school-in-gelsenkirchen-and-soon-in-bochum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday I wasn&#8217;t able to go to the meeting of the club of the supporters (friends?) of the bilingual Carolinenschule in Bochum.Therefore I just have second-hand information. But there is interesting news: There is progress with the new building for the school. They even started working on the secondary school which will be bilingual, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International School Ruhr opening September 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really don&#8217;t have writen much about this project initiated by the &#8216;Initiativkreis Ruhr&#8221; and &#8211; as far as I remember &#8211; the CEO of the RWE company: The International School Ruhr is going to open in September 2010 in Essen. This is the link to its website. http://www.is-ruhr.de According to a press release and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carolinenschule, Bochum opened</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/08/carolinenschule-bochum-opened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Bochum&#8217;s first private elementary school and it opened Tuesday.  I already reported about the project. Therefore I won&#8217;t repeat how the bilingual Carolinenschule works. It started with four classes and 45 pupils. There is space for 80 pupils but the license for the school came only 14 days before the opening. WAZ Bochum, 18.08.2009: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Days &#8211; Three Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last two days, I met people from all three projects in Bochum for founding private (public substitute) schools in Bochum: The International School Bochum, the Carolinen-Schule and the Bochumer Bildungszentrum e.V.  The progress of the three projects seems to be different. Looks like the first two will start with two to four classes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English Kindergarten, pre-schools and toddler groups</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/02/english-kindergarten-pre-schools-and-toddler-groups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/02/english-kindergarten-pre-schools-and-toddler-groups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is some confusion to the translation of &#8216;Kindergarten&#8217; into English language. The English use the term &#8216;Kindergarten&#8217; for the one year before elementary school. This kind of Kindergarten is limited to this last year. The semantics of German &#8216;Kindergarten&#8217; doesn&#8217;t seem to know these limitation. It doesn&#8217;t easily allow a different form of nursery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bilingual Class at Comprehensive School</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/02/bilingual-class-at-comprehensive-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Dortmund exists a comprehensive school that offers a bilingual branch for interested pupils which is called &#8216;Big English&#8217;. These pupils at the Heinrich Böll-Gesamtschule get additionally two more English lessons in 5th and 6th grade. From 7th grade on they get subjects like geography, biology and history taught in English language. The aim ist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bilingual Class at Secondary Modern School</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/02/bilingual-class-at-secondary-modern-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/02/bilingual-class-at-secondary-modern-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a meeting with the people from Bochumer Bildungszentrum e.V. (BBZ) about their work and project of an English or international school, I realized that there are demand and offers for bilingual offers at the different German school types. There is not only a comprehensive school. Traditionally, the secondary school in German knows three different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bilingual Branch at Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Dortmund</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/02/another-bilingual-secondary-school-in-dortmund-heisenberg-gymnasium/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/02/another-bilingual-secondary-school-in-dortmund-heisenberg-gymnasium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heisenberg-Gymnasium offers a bilingual class. Pupils get additional lessons in English and upto two subjects are taught in English language with two lessons per week.]]></description>
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		<title>St. George&#8217;s &#8211; The English International School</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/02/st-georges-the-english-international-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/02/st-georges-the-english-international-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to Thursday&#8217;s list with the stops of the mobile food store, I realized that there is another International School in Duisburg. I had thought this one is in Düsseldorf being a branch of Cologne what would be funny because of the traditional conflict between the two cities. No, they are different schools. In Duisburg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International School Bochum</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2009/02/international-school-bochum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had a first look at the information folder of the <a href="http://www.internationalschoolbochum.de/">International School in Bochum</a>. It's as spring off of the  <a href="http://www.internationalschoolheiligenhaus.com/">International School in Heiligenhaus</a>. Chinese starts from first grade, Latin is an additional offer and further language can be chosen form fifth grade. Thirty percent of the lessons shall be held in German, the rest in English. The curriculum shall contain the curriculum of North Rhine-Westphalia for German, the British National Curriculm and part of the programm of the IBO. The school aims to certify at the IBO to grant the IB-Diploma (International Baccalaureate). There is a school uniform. Breakfast and lunch are offered at school.]]></description>
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