Salzburg's schools on the upswing: More students and digital education in view!

Salzburg's schools on the upswing: More students and digital education in view!

Salzburg, Österreich - It runs around in Salzburg: Almost 60,000 pupils flock to the winter sports weeks organized by schools. With the eleventh free school ski day, which took place on Wednesday, many classes from Vienna and Burgenland were able to enjoy the wonderful slopes of the federal state. The specialist groups of the cable cars under the direction of association chairman Franz Hörl offer this initiative not only as leisure fun, but also as an important incentive for children and families with a migration background. All over Austria, over 12,000 pupils already use the support of 108 cable car companies to experience the snow, such as reported.

While the students escape in the coming summer holidays, an outlook on the coming school year will be thrown. Over 74,000 children and adolescents visited one of the approximately 360 educational institutions in Salzburg in the current school year, supported by around 8,620 educators. The increasing number of students shows a positive picture, even if the number of "tafer classlers" has decreased slightly, which indicates declining birth rate. With a look at digitization and artificial intelligence, the state councilor Daniela Gutschi emphasizes that these topics will continue to focus in the coming school year, whereby numerous further training courses will be offered at the University of Education, such as