The effective use of school resources is a policy priority across OECD countries. The OECD Reviews of School Resources … school education. The series considers four types of resources: financial resources, such as public funding of individual … schools; human resources, such as teachers, school leaders and education administrators; physical resources, such as location …

Austria is one of 10 countries involved in the OECD CERI (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation) Environment … and School Initiatives (ENSI) project. Begun in 1986, ENSI is one of the first international projects to promote … development and research in ambitious, environment-oriented instruction. In Austria, there is an ‘Ecologisation of Schools …

The Austrian Institute for School and Sport Facilities (ÖISS), responsible for providing the country with guidelines …, information and consultation in the field of school building, places special emphasis on school grounds. The ÖISS works to raise … awareness of the importance of school grounds not only for physical activities and recreation, but also for learning …

, this working paper analyses an ongoing reform in Austria to change the traditional sector-specific “supervision” of … different school types to a system of quality management of all schools in the region and to introduce a new external school … and monitoring; a restructuring of existing sector-specific school supervision bodies; creating a shared vision of quality …

should be. There has not been an investigation regarding minority teachers in Austria. I wish to address this gap in the … research by investigating the experience of a Laotian-American in a secondary school. The investigation reveals that in spite …