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Swiss Nano-Cube wins „Best of 2012“ Award
20. April 2012 / Award
The platform „Swiss Nano-Cube“, the Swiss portal on nanotechnology for vocational and grammar school, was awarded a „Best of 2012“ certificate in the category "e-learning" within the Innovation Prize IT 2012. It aims at awaking interest for technological and natural scientific topics among youth.
Join the Olympic Museum at Google's
10. April 2012 / Educational website / Exposition
The Olympic Museum in Lausanne has become first partner of the Google Art Project in Switzerland. On your virtual tour around the museum you may enquire by mouse click on details like owner, artist, production date, etc. of one of the more than hundred works of art.
Universities extend global reach
27. March 2012 / Higher education / Educational politics
Swiss universities turn to foreign campuses to expand the scope of their research activities. Even though it’s in the context of international collaboration, financial incentives offered by foreign governments and prestigious research institutions play a major role in this development.
Job hunting in Switzerland?
5. January 2012 / Job offer
Are you a teacher, job hunting in Switzerland? In that case have a look a tour freshly re-designed job portal for Swiss teachers and those wanting to work in our country. It is directed at teachers on all school levels and its data base is regularly updated by the cantonal institutions.
Fiftieth anniversary of FCS
2. December 2011 / Higher education
The Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students celebrates its 50th anniversary. Over 7,000 young researchers, students and artists from five different continents – half developing, half industrialised countries - have since than been awarded an exchange scholarship in Switzerland.
Eurypedia Website on European education systems
11. November 2011 / Educational politics / Educational statistics / Publication
Eurypedia aims at presenting the most accurate picture of national education systems across Europe. Whether you are looking for understanding a specific education system or for analysing an education issue at European level, Eurypedia will provide you with the most exha
Immigrant youths are “made in Switzerland”
6. October 2011 / Publication
A new book by the title “Youth, Migration and Religion” indicates that religion plays an important role in identity-building among adolescents with immigrant backgrounds in Switzerland. According to it, public discourse on immigrants has changed in Switzerland as well as in other Western countries.
Swiss Education Report 2010
31. August 2011 / Educational research / Publication
The Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education was appointed to draw up the Swiss Education Report 2010. The report contains facts and figures based on statistics, research and official data for the entire Swiss education system from elementary school to adult education.
Skills beyond school
22. August 2011 / Educational research / Publication
Switzerland is taking part in a Europe wide OECD research, „Skills beyond School“. The new policy review of postsecondary vocational education and training will look at the preparation of younger people and adults for technical and professional jobs.
Online query for UAS degree programmes
18. August 2011 / Higher education
The Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology OPET has published an online query for UAS degree programmes. You can search for Bachelor and Master qualifications by using specific criteria like field of study or university of applied sciences UAS.
Mixed views on national anthem
2. August 2011 / Publication
The Swiss National Anthem, which will be sung around the country as part of Swiss National Day celebrations, only became the country’s official anthem 30 years ago. Critics say the song is “too 19th century” and ignores women. The population has mixed views as Swissinfos’ article shows.
Foreign families trust Swiss boarding schools
29. July 2011 / Educational research
Switzerland has a long tradition of hosting boarding schools. Swissinfo researched the reasons why some 100,000 students have been enroled in private Swiss schools and what attracts their families to choose this elite form of education.
Lingu@net World Wide
12. July 2011 / Educational website
Lingu@net World Wide is a multilingual, online resource centre for foreign language learning. It provides information about, and links to good online resources from around the world relating to the learning and teaching of any modern foreign language.
Parental support improves literarcy
11. July 2011 / Educational research / Publication
A new EU study concludes that involving families in literacy programmes is essential to increase the literacy levels of children and adults. The key finding of this report is that family literacy programmes are highly cost-effective, both for children and adults.
Not but praise for change
30. June 2011 / Educational politics
The cabinet announced that federal responsibility for education, research and innovation will be combined into one office within the economics ministry. Although this decision is welcomed by all political parties, there are experts that fear the influence of economy on education and research.
Switzerland's most spectacular architectures
6. June 2011 / Didactical resources
Building Switzerland is a national television series produced by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, swissinfo’s parent company. It provides an insight by video into the country’s most spectacular architectural and engineering feats in recent history.
New brochure on "Studying in Switzerland"
1. June 2011 / Higher education / Publication
The Rectors' Conference of the Swiss Universities has published a brochure in English entitled "Studying in Switzerland: Universities, 2011". Apart from explaining the various university studies available in Switzerland, it also describes the Swiss education system as a whole. Free download.
New eTwinning publications
27. May 2011 / Educational research / Publication
eTwinning has released its two latest publications: the book "Voices of eTwinning: Teachers talk", and the eTwinning report "Teachers’ Professional Development: an overview of current practice". The latter is based on the findings of the monitoring actions of eTwinning in 2010.
UNESCO launches new ICT in Education website
19. May 2011 / Educational website
UNESCO is launching a new website to provide up-to-date information on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education. The ICT in Education website was established to provide countries with resources and advice for elaborating ICT in education policies, strategies and activities.
EDUsummIT 2011
18. May 2011 / Event / Media competence
The EDUsummIT 2011 will take place from June 8-10 at UNESCO's Headquarters in Paris. The summit of ICT in Education, organised by UNESCO, will bring together 120 experts of all fields in education: teachers, educational researchers and policy makers.
