Successful skills assessment: 23 young people start the compulsory school leaving certificate course
Tomorrow is Human Rights Day. Education is a human right, and young people in the project. Basisbildung Interface Wien are currently demonstrating what becomes possible when this right is put into practice. For 24 young people and young adults between the ages of 16 and 24, it was an important step: they joined the Skills Assessment – a written test in German, mathematics and English, which enables entry into the compulsory school leaving course.
The participants come from four groups of the highest course level of InterSpace (#4) and have spent more than a year intensively learning, practicing and systematically preparing for their next educational path in the Basisbildung Interface Wien project.
The skills assessment takes approximately 2.5 hours and demands a high degree of concentration, stamina, and professional competence from the participants. The result is all the more gratifying: 23 out of 24 people – that is, 96 % – passed the test successfully.
These young adults will now start on February 9, 2026 at the VHS polycollege (Johannagasse 2, 1050 Vienna) into the compulsory school leaving course, which ends after about a year with the certificate of the eighth grade.
A special sign of the successful collaboration: Interface Vienna's basic education program thus provides more than half of all course places – 23 out of a total of 40 – at the VHS polycollege.
We warmly congratulate all participants on their success and wish them a motivating start to the next step of their educational journey!
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