A/49/415/Add.1 English Page 14 "The minorities are entitled, in accordance with applicable laws, to establish general and adult education (including vocational) schools and kindergartens." 67. It was pointed out that the members of the German minority were fluent in German and also spoke Danish. The local school and kindergarten associations in the Deutscher Schul- und Sprachverein (German Schools and Language Association) maintained 18 private schools of various types, as well as 25 kindergartens for the German minority. The teaching language in the schools was German, but a wide-ranging education in Danish language and literature was obligatory and, along with German, a compulsory examination subject. The curricula must guarantee the same standard of education as we provided in Danish state schools. 68. The Deutsches Gymnasium (German upper secondary school), in keeping with the Danish education system, caters for classes 10 to 12 (with subject-based teaching). The teaching language is German and there are compulsory classes in Danish language and literature: technical Danish vocabulary is also taught, particularly in the sciences. Gymnasium studies lead to the Danish "student exam", which, by ordinance of the Ministry of Culture of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein, is recognized throughout Germany as a school-leaving and university entrance qualification (providing an appropriate range of subjects has been covered). The Gymnasium has a section for boarders and is under the supervision of the Danish Ministry of Education, which gives the private German schools - and all other private schools in the country - a government grant for each pupil amounting in 1993 to 73 per cent (by 1995 75 per cent) of the cost of keeping one pupil at a state school in 1991. Thanks to a special government grant for German-minority schools to go towards meeting the cost of nativespeaker-standard bilingual instruction, the total government grant increased in 1993 to about 84 per cent of the cost incurred by one pupil at a state school in 1991. In addition, the Government of Denmark gives grants that go towards the cost of school transportation. 69. As far as the Danish minority in Germany is concerned, it was stated that all its members understood Danish and most of them spoke it as well, while they were also all fluent in German. In rural areas sections of the Danish minority spoke "plattdeutsch", a Low German regional dialect; in areas right on the border, some also addressed their German neighbours in Sonderjysk, a Danish regional dialect. The Danish minority also published a Danish-language daily newspaper, entitled Flensborg Avis, which contains a German section. In addition, Flensborg Avis held shares in Radio Schleswig-Holstein, a private radio station; the editors put together a daily news programme in Danish, which was broadcast on Radio Schleswig-Holstein. The minority saw no need to have other media as several Danish television and radio channels could be received in the settlement area and subscriptions were readily available to Danish newspapers and periodicals. 70. The sponsor of school and kindergarten activities is the Dansk Skoleforening for Sydlesvig (Danish Schools Association in South Schleswig), which currently runs 53 schools of different types and 63 kindergartens. The schools include primary and junior secondary schools, four secondary-modern schools and a grammar school as well as a boarding school and a residential adult education college. The language of instruction is Danish, except in the /...