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Lights go out on 250 jobs at Meyer Burger

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 The maker of production equipment for solar cells has already executed numerous measures over the past five years: reducing its operating expenses, simplifying its corporate structure and re-adjusting capacities due to what it described as the “extremely challenging situation in the solar industry”. In a statement on Thursday, Meyer Burger, based in Thun in canton…

Apprenticeship terminations remain a taboo

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 Even though two-thirds of young people in Switzerland go into vocational training, the drop-out rate has, until now, been rarely publicised.

Luca’s story

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 Luca Catani see dropping out of his first apprenticeship as a stepping stone to better things.

Mountain near collapse on Europe’s biggest glacier

This content was published on Sep 28, 2016 At 30km long, the Aletsch glacier is the largest in the Alps. It has shrunk significantly over the past decades as a result of global warming. In some places, where the glacier used to support the surrounding mountains, the ice has almost completely disappeared. This greatly increases the risk of rockslides. Now geologists have discovered…

Citizens force ballot box decision on new constitution

This content was published on Sep 28, 2016 Under Switzerland’s federalist structure, the country is divided into 26 cantons. These enjoy a high degree of autonomy with governments, parliaments, courts and constitutions of their own. Most of these “states” have overhauled their charters in the past 50 years, having joined modern Switzerland in 1848. The promoters of the reform in Valais argue it…

Alpine ‘midhusband’ keeps watch until cows go home

This content was published on Sep 28, 2016 If your job description is alpine ‘midhusband’ to dozens of pregnant and nursing cows, what exactly does that entail?

Snow falls later and melts earlier

This content was published on Sep 28, 2016 The WSL institute for Snow and Avalanche Research and the University of Neuchâtel looked at information from 11 MeteoSwiss weather monitoring devices in different alpine regions of the country, and made an analysis of the data from 1970 up until 2015. They found that the covering of snow now comes on average 12 days later…

Switzerland is the world’s most competitive economy

This content was published on Sep 28, 2016 Switzerland achieved its highest score of 5.8 out of 7 in the WEF Global CompetitivenessExternal link Report 2016/2017. It achieved top marks in four of the 11 criteria: labour market efficiency, business sophistication, innovation and technological readiness. Its weaknesses are perceived to be deepening deflation, low levels of women participating in the workforce and the amount…

Citizen science: Not a scientist? Not a problem

This content was published on Sep 27, 2016 When you open politics to the public, you get direct democracy. But what happens when you open science to the public?

Senate supports public service media

This content was published on Sep 27, 2016 On Monday the Senate rejected calls from the House for an additional report into the role and offer of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), swissinfo.ch’s parent company. The various branches of the SBC are under pressure. Media companies and above all the People’s Party constantly criticise the organisation’s monopoly status. In June, the government published…

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