Education Minister Christoph Wiederkehr announced that school report grades will remain part of the overall Matura assessment. Students must achieve a minimum performance of 30 percent in both written and oral exams, with voluntary theses still offered.
The Council of Ministers decided to shift the distribution of low-cost laptops from the fifth to the sixth grade. Digitalization State Secretary Alexander Pröll noted this delay supports an initiative aimed at providing children with an analog childhood.
New measures to combat violence against women require higher education institutions to include protection concepts in their statutes. Science Minister Eva-Maria Holzleitner emphasized that universities now have victim support and sanctioning options.