https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The Swiss lower house of parliament on Tuesday rejected a proposed federal law that would have required all schoolchildren in Switzerland to shake hands with their teachers. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170926/no-federal-law-on-handshaking-in-swiss-schools Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:36:59 +0200 no-federal-law-on-handshaking-in-swiss-schools A school in Morges, in the canton of Vaud, has suspended three students after they created a website for pupils to publicly assess their teachers’ performance. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160608/pupils-suspended-after-evaluating-their-teachers-online Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:43:26 +0200 pupils-suspended-after-evaluating-their-teachers-online Authorities fired a teacher at a school in the canton of Zurich after learning by accident through a Google search that he was a recently convicted paedophile, according to a TV report aired on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130612/convicted-paedophile-teacher-fired-after-google-search Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:45:00 +0200 convicted-paedophile-teacher-fired-after-google-search