By Oliver Rosenauer International students encounter a great deal of challenges when they decide to study abroad. Aside from the usual language barriers there are a series of questions related to jobs, university registration concerns and how to settle into life abroad. In Vienna a group of former Webster University students decided to dramatically change […]
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Childrens University on Tour in Vienna
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The annual children’s summer university is on tour in the Austrian capital from today. From today until August 30th there will be exhibitions, lectures and experiments on offer for children in parks in ten of Vienna’s districts. The first lecture to take place is called ‘Being foreign – what does that mean?’ A spokesperson from […]
Trusting time
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The ability to trust is not something that children have automatically at birth but is actually developed in the early years at school according to a new study by psychologists in Graz. Working together with colleagues from the University the Prof Ursula Athenstaedt from the Institute of psychology at the University of Graz together with […]
Vienna Uni: Budget deficit shocker
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The University of Vienna finished the last academic year with an unexpected deficit of 15 million Euros. Rector Heinz Engl said it had budgeted for a loss of 8 million but that the Constitutional Court’s decision to suspend student fees had blown the budget to pieces. The university had a positive balance in 2010 and […]
Children uni releases study book
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KinderuniWien will start again from 8 to 20 July and offer a diverse programme. A study book with all lectures will be published on Saturday. “How did Count Dracula become a film star?”; “What is the most poisonous animal in the world?” and “Will robots soon take over the world?” The KinderuniWien offers lectures, where […]
Uni offered not enough seminar places
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The Republic of Austria has to pay damages to a former student of the Medical University of Graz as the university offered not enough seminar places. The student’s union is pleased with the Supreme Court’s decision. The Medical University offered only 264 places in seminars in the winter semester 2005/06 of the second stage of […]
The “KinderUniSteyr” (Kids University of Steyr) in Upper Austria is one of the most innovative Austrian educational projects. This year, the university for children will celebrate its tenth birthday. The goal of the KinderUniSteyr is to motivate the academics of tomorrow for science. The focus is not on ambitious studying but on curiosity for the […]
The health economist Ernest Pichlbauer does not advocate the creation of a medical faculty at the University of Linz. He said that a fourth medical training centre was not necessary and it was a project purely for prestige. Mr Pichlbauer explained that the problem is that the trained medical doctors would move away from Austria […]
An Australian professor of music at the University of Graz in Austria has called for the death sentence for the Pope in an article published on the University’s website. Karl-Franzens-University officials who were bombarded with complaints have now taken the article off-line and confirmed that the article represented the private opinion of Music Professor Richard […]
The Red Bull Stratos project may have attracted a record number of viewers but it failed to deliver much of real scientific value, according to experts. Even scientists working in extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner’s hometown of Salzburg who carefully followed the project said that from a scientific point of view it delivered nothing. In Austria […]