Linke on education

The Left wants students to get free food and drinks throughout the school day. Every schoolchild should also receive a digital device and internet access regardless of their parents' means, and schools should get more specialist staff.

The Left wants free food and drinks in schools. This should apply all day. Every schoolchild should get a device for learning and internet access. The parents' money should not matter. Schools should also get more staff.

Meals are to be prepared on site in so-called vital kitchens. Hygiene products should be available free of charge everywhere. Every school should have at least one school health professional as well as enough administrative and IT staff. School aides should be employed by the schools, paid according to collective agreements and given further training. The regulation on teachers' working hours is to be revised. The program also calls for promoting media literacy on social media, gaming and AI, and for programs against media addiction.

The Left wants to move away from school grades in favor of learning progress talks and individual support. Homework is to be replaced by assignments completed at school during the all-day schedule. Gymnasien (academic-track secondary schools) should take a larger part in inclusion and integration.

The Left wants fewer grades in schools. Teachers should talk with children about their learning instead. There should be no more homework. Children do their tasks at school. Academic-track schools should also take in children with disabilities.

Assignments are to be done at school within a well-structured all-day schedule rather than at home. Gymnasien should be fully involved in inclusion and integration and equipped accordingly, which the program justifies with greater educational equity. Students should get more democratic say in shaping their schools. In light of digitalization and AI, the party wants to support new forms of assessment. The Bundeswehr (armed forces) should not appear in schools.

The Left wants BAföG (federal student aid) that does not depend on parents' income, does not have to be repaid and is enough to live on. Student employees should get a collective agreement, and all universities should receive better basic funding.

BAföG is money from the state for students. The Left wants all students to get it. The parents' income should not matter. Nobody has to pay the money back. Universities should get more steady funding.

The program calls for a dedicated collective agreement for student employees (TVStud). The Studierendenwerk (student services organization) should get more money so that dorms and cafeteria meals become cheaper, and it should greatly expand its dorm capacity. The competitive Excellence Initiative is to give way to better basic funding for all universities. There should be more permanent positions in academia, and students should have more say. At the University of Hamburg, the party wants to create a professorship in pluralist economics and bring back the criminology degree program.

The Left wants to bind all Hamburg research institutions to purely civilian research through a civil clause and to enforce it. Such a clause should also be added to the strategy for the city's own companies.

Hamburg universities should not do research for the military. A rule should say so. It is called a civil clause. The rule should also apply to companies owned by the city.

There should be no third-party funding for arms research or research on psychological warfare. The party rejects guest lectures by and cooperation with the universities of the Bundeswehr (German armed forces). Hamburg institutes should not work on new weapons technology. The Left also calls for a halt to developing artificial intelligence for drones and combat robots.