Harmonsing student grants
An initiative by student organisations calls for unified grants for higher education.
They argue a harmonised system would help eliminate discrimination for students of financially modest backgrounds in less generous cantons.
Opponents argue education is a responsibility of the largely autonomous 26 cantons.
The initiative only has the support of the main leftwing parties and trade unions.
There are ten universities as well as nine technical colleges, beside the two Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich and Lausanne.
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