Schools in the eastern states of Austria (Vienna, Burgenland and Lower Austria) are currently switched to distance learning. But what will have changed in schools when they go back after Easter?
Five teenagers aged between 15 and 16 have been sentenced by a court in Graz for the rape and sexual abuse of a fellow school student, who was 15 at the time.
A kindergarten in Vienna was reportedly used as a location for sex and drug parties, in the latest allegations to hit a businessman whom prosecutors suspect may have been operating an organized criminal network.
Police are investigating what caused 38 school pupils to be hospitalized for respiratory problems and headaches after reports of a strange smelling gas in a school in Tulln, Lower Austria.
Austrian integration minister Sebastian Kurz has called for the immediate closure of "many Islamic kindergartens," and insisted on tighter controls to prevent radicalization.
A school in Adolf-Loos Gasse 2 in Floridsdorf was the scene of a major incident when 170 children were evacuated after an apparent pepper spray attack.
The headmistress of the Vienna Business School in Mödling, Lower Austria, has ruled that only German may be spoken on her school's premises, citing “cultural conflict with cleaning staff” as the reason behind her decision.
An Islamic studies teacher from Graz who was suspended by the board of education after allegedly defending the Paris shootings to his pupils has been told he can teach again - as there was insufficient evidence he ever made the statements.
A private Islamic primary school in Vienna's Brigittenau district has been shut down as the city council believes its students’ welfare was endangered, the Kurier newspaper reports.
A hearing has taken place into the case of a teenager from Vorarlberg who intends to sue the Austrian government for €21,000 because he was bullied at school and claims that his teachers failed to put a stop to it.
A pig’s head has been left on the construction site of a planned Turkish Islamic high school in Vienna, in what is believed to be an Islamophobic attack.
