Austria

The Austrian government has given schools greater flexibility in choosing ways to support foreign pupils after assessments showed that separate language classes were linked to isolation and academic delays. Half of schools abolished the classes immediately, while Education Ministry data showed that 22% of a sample of 22,800 pupils repeated a year once.

Austria denied Mohammad Eslami entry to attend a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors in Vienna because of international sanctions and a travel ban imposed on him. A US official said a request for an exemption from the ban had not been approved by the UN sanctions committee.