German-speaking Switzerland removes French from primary schools
Some German-speaking cantons are removing French from primary school to focus on English. But in the other linguistic regions the situation…
Increasing mobility of Swiss graduates
Four in ten graduates attended a college of higher education outside their canton of residence
Summer vacation
The term summer vacation or summer break refers to the school break between school years and the academic year break, which can last from…
High school maturity adjustment for exam-free access to universities
The Federal Council has launched the consultation process for the total revision of the Matura Ordinance (MCO) and the Administrative…
The new basic commercial training will be offered in… 2023
In Switzerland, the two levels of training will be harmonised in terms of teaching methods and content for commercial employees (FTA and…
Don’t ask us for words: in Italy we no longer have any…
The evolution of the bureaucratic language of the Belpaese does not move towards simplification, but towards farce: an idiom that, by now,…
Damian Elsig new head of the Swiss National Library
The newly appointed director of the NL will take office Aug. 16, succeeding Marie-Christine Doffey, who has led the institution since 2005…
Three hundred million francs for global health
Bern aims to improve access to vaccines, tests and medicines in developing countries and to strengthen local health systems in line with…
Full video, “The secret gateway to Switzerland”
Andrea Schenone, president of the "Swiss Federalism" association, explained what the federal government can offer in an EVE Elite Value…
Biodiversity of Switzerland’s agricultural land is surveyed
Agroscope's "ALL-EMA" programme of controls and measures focuses on the diversity of flora and fauna in the cultivated habitats of the…
In Switzerland, the COVID19 certificate is universal and cannot be falsified
Until the end of May, the federal government will pursue two scenarios: one from the Federal Office of Information Technology and…
SFIVET is on its way to full academic status
In 2022, the Federal College of Applied Sciences in Zollikofen, attended by 16,000 people a year ago, will be even more attractive
The unsustainable and eternal stupidity of the censorship algorithm
Censorship always derives from a paternalistic and offensive vision of the people: from "Braghettone" to Facebook, its mechanisms have…
Innovation Park East in the Swiss National Circuit
Government approval for the Lerchenfeld and Buchs Campus facilities, supported by the cantons of St. Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and…
IPI and Swiss export industry join forces
In 2020, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property acted in 280 cases of violation of "Swissness" legislation, but now there are…
Here’s why people don’t like insurance against pandemics
Companies have conveyed to the Federal Council their opposition to annual premiums that are parafiscal in nature and useful only if they…