Please find below the articles that appeared in the Winter-Autumn 2006-2007 edition of the Swiss Learning magazin.
Spring-Summer articles are available here. |
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| EDUCATION - “We are happy to have 20 to 25% of foreign students” |
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Exclusive interview with Pascal Couchepin, Swiss Minister of Education |
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| ABROAD - The importance of an alumni tradition |
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| By Ambassador Raymond Loretan, Consul General of Switzerland in New York |
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EDUCATION - Standing for theory and research |
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| “Keeping on conducting surveys recognized as of benefit to the country is a strong point of success for Swiss universities and institutes like ICDP”, Professor Martin Killias, pioneer criminologist |
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| By Camille Bozonnet |
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| EVENT - “Switzerland, a model to the world” - Milliyet newspaper headline |
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| Swiss Learning organized its first international event, which took place from 25-29 April 2006 in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey |
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| By Christophe X. Clivaz |
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| EDUCATION - St. Gallen University: a "business academy" |
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| Founded in 1898, the University of St. Gallen (HSG) continues to pursue the goal of providing its nearly 5,000 students with a practice-oriented education, guided by an integrative view of business, economics, law, and the social sciences |
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| By Camille Bozonnet |
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| CAREER - Global competition for the best talent |
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| International financial services companies such as UBS are some of the most attractive employers around. But with competition for the best talent fierce, outstanding training and promotion programmes are vital. Talent development is becoming a cornerstone of successful corporate strategy |
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| By Marcel Ospel, Chairman of UBS AG |
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| EDUCATION - Swiss Universities Sciences – a success |
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The close-to-practice education offered by the newest form of third-level institutes
make their graduates highly employable |
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By Blaise Roulet, Deputy Director, Head of University of Applied Sciences Centre,
Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology OPET |
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| EDUCATION - USI, the newest University in Switzerland |
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| The Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) has concluded its first decade. A chance of taking stock of it |
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| By Dr Marco Baggiolini, former President of the USI |
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| EDUCATION - Bologna’s challenge about to be taken up |
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| "Switzerland finds itself one of the front runners" asserts Susanne Obermayer, responsible for Bologna coordination with the Rector’s Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS) |
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| By Camille Bozonnet |
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| THOUGHTS - Uncertainties and Certainties |
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| The international situation is increasingly polarized by serious and menacing uncertainties |
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| By Jean-Daniel Clavel |
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| Geneva : the world in one small city |
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| By Pierre E. Jaquier, Chief of the Geneva Economic Development Office |
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