Study While Working: Tips and Insights
Knowledge and experience from study consulting.
Adverts on This Site: How I Earn Money, and What That Does Not Buy
This site now carries paid placements. What the partner package is, the four rules that govern it, and what money explicitly cannot buy here.
Education Voucher and AZAV: Why It Will Not Fund a Degree
AZAV accreditation, provider approval, measure approval: why the Bildungsgutschein excludes university degrees, and which training it does cover.
Studying After Redundancy or Severance: The Three Deadlines
Termination agreements, blocking periods and severance: why your study start depends on three deadlines, and the order in which to check them.
Sabbatical and Long-Term Accounts: Banking Time to Study
Time-value accounts under section 7b SGB IV: how to bank working time and take paid leave for your degree without losing social insurance cover or income.
A Doctorate Abroad: What to Clarify About Using the Title First
Using a foreign doctoral title in Germany: the three questions to settle before you enrol, who is responsible and why it is not a formality.
Distance Learning on Shift Work: How to Plan When Your Rhythm Changes
Distance learning on shift work: why weekly plans fail here, how to plan in shift blocks and what to watch for with examinations and attendance days.
Reducing Your Working Hours to Study: Your Right Under Section 8 TzBfG
Part-time work to study in Germany: the conditions, the deadlines and the rule under which the reduction takes effect if your employer does not refuse in time.
Deducting a Part-Time Degree from Your Taxes in Switzerland
Deducting study costs in Switzerland: which deduction applies, the two conditions you must meet and why your canton of residence decides everything.
A Master in a Different Subject: The Conditions You Should Expect
Switching subject for your master: when a change of field works, how bridging modules arise and how to tell before applying whether it is realistic.
Health Insurance and Part-Time Study: Why the Student Rate Rarely Applies
Health insurance while studying alongside a job in Germany: why student cover falls away, what the working student exemption really requires.
Extending a Distance Degree: What Actually Lands on the Invoice
Extending a distance degree: which cost components kick in after the standard period, what to look for in the contract and when a leave semester is better.
Distance Learning While Unemployed: What Really Applies to German Benefits
Studying while unemployed in Germany: why the 15-hour rule is the wrong provision here, which presumption the law makes and how you rebut it.