Shooting Rampage in Graz: Flexible Graduation Regulation for Affected School

All graduates at BORG Dreierschützengasse who are unable to take the oral final exam in the near future have several options to obtain their diploma, the ministry informed APA. A corresponding legal regulation will be passed in the National Council next week.

Due to the exceptional, highly traumatic situation, all graduates can receive a diploma upon request, in which the annual grade for the respective subject is also the final exam grade. Students who wish to take or retake all or individual oral exams of the final exam can do so regularly. This is possible - in consultation with the examination board - before the summer holidays or also in the first supplementary term in autumn, it was stated.

The decision on whether to take the oral final exam does not have to be made immediately by the graduates. They can also decide in the autumn which option they want to take. The regulation for the written exams applies analogously. Here too, graduates are given the opportunity to have the annual grade included in the diploma.

Wiederkehr: "Help wherever possible"

Minister of Education Christoph Wiederkehr (NEOS) wants to help "wherever it is possible." The students of BORG Dreierschützengasse have gone through indescribable experiences. Therefore, they should now be free to choose whether and when they want to take the oral exam. Under no circumstances should there be pressure to "have to take an exam after these traumatic experiences," said Wiederkehr.

(APA/Red)

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