For over half a million students in Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland, the new school year begins on Monday. Among them are also 41,000 first graders who will take their seats in a classroom for the first time. Meanwhile, the 660,000 children and teenagers in the other six federal states have one more week of vacation.

German Support, School Psychology, Social Work

The new school year brings, among other things, an expansion of German support and school psychology, and for the first time, there will be school social work at federal schools (AHS, vocational middle and higher schools/BMHS). For children with disabilities, more modern curricula will be gradually introduced, and at the Economic Secondary Schools (WIKU), a new subject "Economy, Innovation, and Sustainability" will be introduced autonomously by the schools. The schools are to be relieved by the newly created pedagogical-administrative specialists and fewer ministerial decrees.

(APA/Red)

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