Erstellt am: 2. 9. 2015 - 14:40 Uhr

Refugees: Terezija Stoisits has “exactly what’s needed” for the job

Reality Check: the new coordinator of schooling for refugee children, plus reports on the situation at railway stations in Budapest & Munich

Refugees & School

With school term starting in many parts of Austria on 7th September, what’s going to happen to the several thousand refugee children who should be going to school?

The authorities will have to respond to the challenge of finding enough school places and adequate staff, not just to teach them, but to be able to help with learning German, and providing psychological support for youngsters weighed down by the traumatic experiences of their long, often perilous, journeys.

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The job of overseeing the integration of refugee children into Austria's school system has been given to the veteran Greens politician, Terezija Stoisits. How well is she qualified for the job and what are the main challenges?

We hear from ORF.at journalist Simon Hadler, whose focus is refugees and whose e-book on the the topic "Die Angst vor dem Ansturm" is being published at the end of this month:

/SZILARD KOSZTICSAK

Refugees in Budapest & Munich

Since the authorities in Hungary stopped refugees boarding trains to travel to Austria and Germany, large crowds have been camped outside the east railway stations in Budapest.

Meanwhile those who managed to travel before that, on Monday, have arrived in Munich. Reports from our correspondents Nick Thorpe and Kate Connolly: