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Available only in German: Several German universities have recently been targeted by hacker attacks, which may have resulted in the theft of thousands of records belonging to (prospective) students and the complete paralysis of university operations. "Are higher education institutions—with their digital administrative systems—perhaps too vulnerable? In other words: to what extent is digitalisation necessary within university organisation, teaching, and research—and are such hacker attacks an unavoidable side effect for everyone involved in higher education?" In this episode, the Deutschlandfunk program 'Campus und Karriere' explores these questions. The discussion features Armin Himmelrath (reporting for Deutschlandfunk), along with Stephan Trahasch—Rector of Offenburg University of Applied Sciences and chair of the state conference of rectors for universities of applied sciences in Baden-Württemberg—Dirk Schieborn, a professor of AI, mathematics, and data science at Reutlingen University, and Stefan Stürmer, Rector of the FernUniversität in Hagen, an institution that relies almost exclusively on digital teaching and learning formats. [Summary: Information provided by the editors of the site, translated and supplemented by the editors of Education Worldwide]
Release date: 27.10.2026
Update: 27.10.2026

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