Preparation Fachabitur 2024

In this post, I will collect some articles related to the topics of the Fachabitur. This post is a work in progress, so come back for updates.

Making the most of our leisure time

From school to work

• No college degree? More employers than ever just don’t care

• Top 10 jobs teenagers want when they’re older are revealed

Keeping healthy

• What is Rishi Sunak’s anti-smoking bill and will it pass?

• Healthier ready-to-eat meals would have ‘huge’ EU climate benefits – report

Travelling when young

• How to ski greener – switch from plane to train

• Travel experiences you can only enjoy while you’re young

Saving the planet

• No big North Sea fossil fuel country has plan to stop drilling in time for 1.5C goal

• Youth activists need protection against smear campaigns and arrests, says UN expert

Information in a digital age

• ‘New text, same problems’: inside the fight over child online safety laws

• Why does the US want to ban TikTok, and when could it happen?

• How to get a job: Six expert tips for finding work

Multiculturalism in a diverse world

The US

• Three reasons why so many migrants want to cross from Mexico to US

The UK

• UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

• Say one thing, do another? The government’s record rise in net migration

Germany

• German Bundestag approves payment cards for asylum-seekers

• Germany: Would-be migrant workers worried by growing racism

Living one’s life

• In the battle over books, who gets to decide what’s age-appropriate at libraries?

In conflict with the law

• Why locking up youth offenders fails to reduce crime – and what we should be doing instead

• Half of teenagers in England and Wales have witnessed or been victims of violence, study reveals

The world of work

• Why is free time still so elusive?

• Fake Jobs: Skammers impersonate firms to target victims

Our technological future

• ‘Staying silent? Not an option’: family takes fight against deepfake nudes to Washington

• Croydon: Met Police to continue facial recognition despite concerns