Europe Falls Further Behind By Refusing To Adopt English As The Language Of Science And Engineering

Posted: 10/14/2019

Apparently, the German state of Bavaria has recently tried to implement that the english language is used more frequently to teach science and engineering at Bavarian universities. This is a very laudable initiative! However, plenty of parochial and outright foolish criticism may doom this initiative!

Chinese scientists manage easily to publish and communicate in English. Indian scientists and engineers speak English with ease. German scientists and engineers better be prepared to rise to the challenge of a lingua franca!

It would be illusory to think that an Indian scientist or engineer would bother to learn German or French!

Just amazing what foolish articles (S1, S2, S3) these talking heads of a leading German media outlet (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) are capable to write. Are the chief editor and the other responsible editors sleeping at the switch? Little doubt this is the case!

Sources (S):

1. AN BAYERISCHEN HOCHSCHULEN: Hauptsache, Englisch (10/14/2019)
2. BAYERISCHE UNIVERSITÄTEN: Mehr rein englischsprachige Studiengänge (10/14/2019)
3. ENGLISCH IN DER WISSENSCHAFT: Eine erzwungene Einsprachigkeit wäre autokratisch (6/4/2018)