Cluster: Swiss Identity

Swiss set to get tough over sports corruption

This content was published on Oct 2, 2014 Host to 65 international sports federations including football’s governing body Fifa, Switzerland is under pressure to hold organisations more to account. Tough new law changes before parliament could make the Swiss a forerunner in the fight against sports corruption, say observers.

Education

Great expectations for scholarship Angolans

This content was published on Oct 1, 2014 Among the intake of students at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) this semester is a unique group from Angola. These young adults fought tough competition to secure places on a course billed to make them decision-makers back home.

Education

EU row threatens Swiss universities’ progress

This content was published on Oct 1, 2014 The ongoing impasse between Switzerland and the European Union could damage the international competitiveness of Swiss universities, warns the author of the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) university rankings.

Demographics

Switzerland named one of the top places to grow old

This content was published on Oct 1, 2014 Switzerland is one of the top three countries to grow old, according to a global index of wellbeing for people over 60. But a Swiss non-governmental organisation warns that growing numbers of elderly people are affected by poverty.

Demographics

Bern offers more aid to Gaza but wants guarantees

This content was published on Oct 1, 2014 Manuel Bessler, delegate for humanitarian aid and head of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid UnitExternal link, said in East Jerusalem on Tuesday that Switzerland had already granted in July CHF4.25 million in emergency aid to the region of Palestine on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. “But humanitarian aid will never replace the political process,”…

Demographics

A third of babies born to foreign mothers

This content was published on Sep 30, 2014 The office said one reason for this increase – from 19.6% to 38.7% – is the fact that proportionally there are more foreign women of child-bearing age than Swiss women and they have, on average, more children. Swiss women also have children later – the average age has gone up from 29.3 years in 1990…

Education

Zurich art school’s grand ambitions

This content was published on Sep 30, 2014 Zurich University of the Arts has a range of degree programmes and further education courses like music, dance, cinema and design. As of September 2014 the 35 different educational facilities belonging to the University of the Arts were brought under one roof, in the Toni Areal complex. The building, designed by EM2N architects, transformed the…

Culture

Balancing national and global language needs

This content was published on Sep 29, 2014 In a Swiss region where English is the working language of many companies, students are just starting to complete some schooling in English.

Demographics

Switzerland is still a draw to immigrants

This content was published on Sep 29, 2014 By the end of last year, 8,139,600 people were living in Switzerland. A total of 193,300 people immigrated to the country – out of these 26,100 were Swiss citizens and the rest were foreigners, according to the latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office. Compared to 2012, the number of immigrants rose by 10.5%. Germans…

Demographics

‘Ebola is just one of many neglected diseases’

This content was published on Sep 29, 2014 Tests with vaccines on humans to treat Ebola will probably be carried out in Switzerland. Marcel Tanner of the Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel told swissinfo.ch why it took nearly 40 years to find an antidote to the disease sweeping West Africa.

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