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Switzerland has ‘third best university system in the world’

Switzerland's tertiary education system is the world's third best – behind only the United States and the United Kingdom, according to a new ranking published on Wednesday.

Published: 27 February 2019 09:53 CET
Switzerland has 'third best university system in the world’
Zurich's ETH is the best place in the world to study Life & Marine Sciences, according to QS. Photo: ETH

The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019 reveals the best universities for 48 different academic subjects in 78 countries.

While the US and the UK clearly dominate the latest rankings, Switzerland also performed strongly, with 22 university departments across the country ranked in the global top ten in their subject areas – nine more than last year.

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Thirteen of those departments were at Zurich’s ETH technical institute, The institute is the best place in the world to study Earth & Marine sciences, according to the QS rankings. It is also home to the third best Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Environmental Sciences departments in the world.

“Even though university comparisons are to be enjoyed within the context of their methodology, I am pleased with the consistency in which ETH maintains its high ranking in the academic world, as well as across diverse disciplines,” ETH Zurich President, Joël Mesot of the latest QS ranking.

Meanwhile Lausanne’s EHL hospitality school (École hôtelière de Lausanne) was ranked the best place to study Hospitality & Leisure Management globally.

The QS subject rankings are based on an academic reputation survey, an employer reputation survey and the impact of research carried out by institutions.

For the 2019 rankings, QS received input from around 83,000 academics worldwide.

Switzerland’s ETH was named the seventh best university in the world in 2019 in separate QS rankings published last year. The top six ranked universities are in the United States and in the United Kingdom.

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ISLAM

Police probe opened after poster campaign against ‘Islamophobic’ lecturers at French university

The French government condemned on Monday a student protest campaign targeting two university professors accused of Islamophobia, saying it could put the lecturers in danger.

Published: 8 March 2021 13:35 CET
Police probe opened after poster campaign against 'Islamophobic' lecturers at French university
Illustration photo: Justin Tallis/AFP

Student groups plastered posters last week on the walls of a leading political science faculty in Grenoble that likened the professors to “fascists” and named them both in a campaign backed by the UNEF student union.

Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa said the posters and social media comments recalled the online harassment of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty last October, who was beheaded in public after being denounced online for offending Muslims.

“These are really odious acts after what happened with the decapitation of Samuel Paty who was smeared in the same way on social networks,” she said on the BFM news channel. “We can’t put up with this type of thing.”

“When something is viewed as racist or discriminatory, there’s a hierarchy where you can report these types of issues, which will speak to the professor and take action if anything is proven,” Schiappa said.

Sciences Po university, which runs the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Grenoble in eastern France, also condemned the campaign on Monday and has filed a criminal complaint.

An investigation has been opened into slander and property damage after the posters saying “Fascists in our lecture halls. Islamophobia kills” were found on the walls of the faculty.

One of the professors is in charge of a course called “Islam and Muslims in contemporary France” while the other is a lecturer in German who has taught at the faculty for 25 years.

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