Indicator history

According to the third state report of Austria about the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM), the positive trend concerning the registration of children for lessons in Slovenian language has continued in Carinthia. In the school year 2009/2010, 1,831 children (41.27 per cent) were registered for bilingual lessons in elementary schools. Additionally, 185 pupils attended bilingual lessons in two elementary schools in Klagenfurt which increases the total number of children attending bilingual lessons to 2,016. In the last two years, the number of pupils attending lessons in Slovenian has remained steady: in the school year 2008/09, 1,853 children (41.12 per cent) were registered for bilingual courses and 190 pupils attended bilingual lessons in two elementary schools in Klagenfurt. In secondary schools, 1,550 pupils attended lessons in Slovenian language in 2009/2010.       

In the autochthonous settlement area of the national minorities in the Burgenland, the children – nearly without exception – attend bilingual lessons in Hungarian as well as in Croatian.  In the school year 2009/2010, 2,143 pupils in compulsory schools and secondary schools were registered for lessons in Croatian and 2,717 pupils in compulsory schools and secondary schools were registered for lessons in Hungarian. Only five children in the compulsory school system attended lessons in Romanes.

Sources: http://www.bka.gv.at/DocView.axd?CobId=42120; http://www.bmukk.gv.at/medienpool/6416/nr1_10.pdf