http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner How to understand the choices and get the best for your children while you are in Switzerland Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:32:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The canton of Basel city has just issued fines to Muslim parents who do not allow their daughters to attend the swimming lessons dispensed by school. The education minister, Christophe Eymann, says that he is just applying the new law that stipulates the obligation for parents to ensure the proper conditions ... http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner/2010/08/13/basel-fines-parents-over-swimming/ International Link was created in Vaud at the beginning of April to promote a higher level of communication between foreign companies and their local counterparts, between expats and their hosts (see Swisster article). Two networking events take place in May. Best Practices Breakfast dedicated to HR professionals on 7 May HR professionals ... http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner/2010/05/04/two-professional-networking-events-for-vaud-expats/ For its first public event, the newly founded English-speaking Business Professional Women (BPW) Lake Geneva group invites renowned Martha Maznevski,IMD MBA Program Director to give a talk on the Controversy of Diversity Is diversity of any kind, including functional, cultural and gender a key ingredient for corporate innovation, advancement & profitability?   AGENDA 18.00 – Registration & Introductions 19.00 – ... http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner/2010/04/07/bpw-lake-geneva%e2%80%99s-first-public-event/ The QS World MBA Tour featuring hundreds of influential business schools, is coming up on the 27 of March in Geneva at the Four Seasons Hotel. Come meet Top US and European Business Schools (Duke University, Hult International Business School, Thunderbird, IMD, HEC, etc…). The event itself will give prospective MBA candidates a ... http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner/2010/03/24/first-international-mba-fair-in-geneva-this-saturday/ A conference organized on Monday, March 22, 2010 by Leman Events promises to offer "Priceless information for anyone with a school age child in Vaud." "Experts from Institut Polycours in Lausanne will speak to international parents in English about the unique Vaud public school system. Key topics will include ... http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner/2010/03/17/understanding-the-vaud-school-system/ “Maria, I just met a girl named Maria...” Crazy about Leonard Bernstein’s celebrated version of Romeo and Juliet, remember the fancy dancing of gang warfare when the ‘Jets’ get pitched against the ‘Emeralds’, nostalgic for a colourful and fast-paced musical in English? The International School of Lausanne is pulling out the ... http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner/2010/03/16/west-side-story/ (16 March 2010 update: The Federal State Council (Switzerland’s supreme governmental authority) is considering the possibility of allowing exceptions to the rule to strap all children under the age of 12, as long as they measure less than 150 cm, into adapted booster seats. The rule would not apply for transportation ... http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner/2010/02/26/important-information-on-car-seats-for-children/ BPW (Business and Professional Women) is launching its first English-speaking club in Switzerland in the Lake Geneva area. Founded more than 80 years ago, BPW is recognized as the most important Swiss and worldwide association for women in prominent positions in business, charity, politics or culture. It is joined by women ... http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner/2010/01/26/bpw-starts-english-speaking-club/ A motion put forward by the Swiss People's Party (UDC/SVP) to ban headscarfs in schools and to not allow students to be dispensed from sport during Ramadan was refused on 4 January by the Zurich cantonal parliament in a vote of 104 against and 65 in favour of the motion. The ... http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner/2010/01/05/zurich-refuses-to-ban-head-scarf-in-schools/ Following an incident that opposed an irate father to the medical staff of the Hôpital de l'Enfance (Children's hospital) in Lausanne, the guidelines that define how quickly a child will be examined and cared for by a doctor have been made public by the hospital. The father, whose three and ... http://blog.swisster.com/education_corner/2009/12/14/how-emergencies-are-dealt-with-in-vaud-childs-hospital/