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Upper Austria had already submitted several motions before the start of the conference. One concerns German courses for asylum seekers with a high probability of staying. A project that has already been started as a pilot project in Germany. We now want to roll this out more widely.
“About 70 percent of asylum seekers in basic care are illiterate. We first have to lay the foundations for them to be able to learn a language,” says Hattmannsdorfer. Hardly any German courses would be offered in the basic provision, an expansion could take place, as in Upper Austria, together with the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF).
In addition, the content of teaching in mosques is to be reformed. According to the Hattmannsdorfer office, a study by the University of Education of the Diocese of Linz, which OÖN reported, showed a need for action. Most of the teaching materials are not in German and convey a “world view that does not correspond to the reality of life in Austria”.
Source: Nachrichten
