School exchanges help bridge Switzerland’s language divide

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Education directors Silvia Steiner and Frédéric Borloz are promoting school exchanges between pupils at every level. This initiative connects Zurich and Vaud to help bridge the language divide. The move comes as French lessons in Zurich primary schools face political pressure. Such teaching is currently under pressure across German-speaking Switzerland.

Zurich and Vaud are expanding school exchanges as French lessons in Zurich’s primary schools come under political pressure, reports SRF. French teaching in primary schools is under pressure in German-speaking Switzerland. But Silvia Steiner and Frédéric Borloz, the education directors of Zurich and Vaud, are promoting exchanges between pupils at every level, writes SRF. Switzerland’s […]

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