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Parliament wants to scrap work permit quotas for non-EU graduates of Swiss unis

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:07:04 +0100

The Swiss senate on Tuesday backed measures designed to make it easier for students from outside the European Union who have completed higher education in Switzerland to stay and work in the Alpine county.

Switzerland has 'third best university system in the world’

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:53:41 +0100

Switzerland's tertiary education system is the world's third best – behind only the United States and the United Kingdom, according to a new ranking published on Wednesday.

Initiative to ban English at University of Zurich launched

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:06:29 +0100

An initiative to ban English at the University of Zurich has been filed by a citizen in Dietikon.

'Worst ad ever': Swiss uni ETH under fire over promotional rap video

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 12:16:27 +0100

Switzerland’s ETH university is one of the world's top academic institutions but a new promotional video featuring rapping students is getting attention for all the wrong reasons.

Swiss uni is fourth most innovative in Europe

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:30:55 +0200

Lausanne's EPFL has been ranked the fourth most innovative in Europe in the first ever Reuters Top 100: Europe's Most Innovative Universities ranking launched on Tuesday.

ETH Zurich rides high in key uni reputation poll

Fri, 06 May 2016 13:51:56 +0200

Swiss federal technology institute ETH Zurich is the highest rated university in continental Europe, a prestigious new survey shows.

School with 163-year history named top 'young' university

Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:06:27 +0200

Lausanne’s federal technology institute EPFL is once again the world’s top young university, according to the London-based Times Higher Education (THE) rankings, published on Wednesday.

New courses address shortage of Swiss docs

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:17:10 +0200

Higher education institutions across Switzerland are creating new access courses to medicine to address the shortage of doctors in the country.

ETH Zurich vaults into top ten university list

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:31:19 +0200

Switzerland’s federal institute of technology, ETH Zurich, now ranks among the top ten universities in the world, according to the authoritative 2015/16 QS World University Rankings, released on Tuesday.

University locks down after shooting false alarm

Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:54:00 +0100

About 5,000 students and teachers at a Zurich university were told to lock themselves in their classrooms during a security alert on Thursday prompted by a false alarm of a shooting on campus.

Two Swiss business schools crack FT top ten

Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:32:00 +0100

Two Swiss business schools ranked among the top ten in the latest Financial Times rankings of European business schools.

ETH Zurich retains status in world university list

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:52:00 +0200

Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich is yet again continental Europe’s top university according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for 2014-15.

Swiss researchers study WhatsApp messages

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:26:00 +0200

WhatsApp users are being asked to send their messages to Swiss university researchers as part of a unique linguistics project investigating how people communicate with the global messaging service.

Swiss students shut out of EU exchange deal

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:51:00 +0100

The European Union has blocked Switzerland from its Erasmus+ student exchange programme as a result of the vote to re-introduce quotas on EU citizens.

Zurich uni worker posts body parts pics on web

Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:08:00 +0200

A former Zurich University worker took pictures of body parts in an anatomical collection and published the pictures on Instagram as a joke.

Swiss study: Death risk for sausage eaters

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:36:00 +0100

Anyone who eats more than 40 grams of sausage products a day is asking for trouble, according to a new study by the University of Zurich.

ETH Zurich is 'top uni' in continental Europe

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0100

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich has the best reputation of all universities in continental Europe, according to a new world ranking.

Swiss want Berlin to pay for German students

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:57:00 +0200

The Swiss government has called on Germany to pay for the 10,000 German students who study in the country and are costing its universities up to €40,000 (48,000 francs) per degree.

Human-Neanderthal mating was rare: study

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:17:00 +0200

Scientists have shown that modern humans have some traces of genes from Neanderthals, but a study out on Monday suggests that any breeding between the two was most likely a rare event.

Few immigrant kids go to college - study

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:36:00 +0200

Migrant children born in Switzerland are much less likely to go to university than Swiss children, mainly due to unfavorable conditions at home and language barriers, a study found.