Vienna is still suffering from a shortage of kindergarten places for years after the law was changed to make sure they were free to any children aged up to 6 years old. That is despite the fact that the city has invested heavily in increasing the number of places available. Yet despite those most experts […]
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Kurz kicks off kindergarten initiative
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Experts have expressed concerns about a capacity bottleneck as People’s Party (ÖVP) Integration Secretary Sebastian Kurz started a two-year kindergarten pilot project. Kurz – whose party forms a government coalition with the Social Democrats (SPÖ) – said yesterday (Weds) parents in two districts in Salzburg and Lower Austria were offered to send their children to […]
Salzburg has ended the regional kindergarten building programme – not because of a shortage of money but because the number of places to satisfy demand has now been reached. The city said that places for 96 percent of the children in kindergarten age in the city were now provided. SPÖ-vice Mayor Martin Panosch who was […]
Many small children in Austria could soon be ordered to attend kindergartens for two years, the government coalition has said. People’s Party (ÖVP) Integration Issues State Secretary Sebastian Kurz suggested yesterday (Weds) to expand the current mandatory one-year kindergarten scheme to reduce the risk of many kids fall behind at school due to poor language […]
A German has been convicted for firing at houses in Vienna-Hietzing with a slingshot.The 51-year-old was arrested after staff at a doctors practice informed police that the man was damaging the buildings facade last September.The weapon he was using was identified as a high-precision slingshot which has to be registered by owners in Austria. The […]
School tackles ‘scary’ Nikolaus issue
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Austrias first Nikolausschule (Saint Nicolas School) is offering courses for St Nikolaus lookalikes who are gearing up to visit children over the coming weeks.It is a popular tradition in the Catholic parts of German-speaking Europe that a Father Christmas figure called Heiliger Nikolaus brings sweets, nuts and fruits to youngsters on 5 or 6 December.Now […]
‘Scary’ Saint Nicolas banned
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A kindergarten in Vienna has decided to shut the door on Nikolaus.Michaela Müller-Wenzel of the the Kinderfreunde kindergarten in Favoriten district said today (Thurs) that they had agreed that Saint Nicolas will only wander through its garden while the children wave to him from inside.Speaking to Viennese daily Heute, Müller-Wenzel said she and her colleagues […]