Switzerland is facing a dearth of health workers, but nothing like the shortages in developing countries where doctors and nurses have left for better opportunities. To combat this problem, a coalition of Swiss health and humanitarian organisations has written a manifesto that addresses the worldwide need for properly trained healthcare professionals. Click here to read [...]
Posts Tagged ‘education’
Care drain threatens needy countries
Posted in Health, tagged Switzerland, health, poverty, education, humanitarian aid, care drain, brain drain on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Doctors say weak students get too much therapy
Posted in Current affairs, tagged ADHD, children, education, health, hyperactivity, Science, Switzerland on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More than half of Swiss schoolchildren are undergoing some sort of therapy in an effort to solve learning problems. That is far too many, according to the authors of a recently-published book on children with learning difficulties. They say that parents, teachers and doctors have unrealistic expectations of children. Solothurn pediatrician Thomas Baumann and Zug [...]
Aunt Annie brings English to life
Posted in People, tagged education, English, expat, language, Switzerland, teaching on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An English-speaking stranger pops into a Swiss classroom, and she seems a little confused. But soon, Aunt Annie has the children contributing eagerly to the conversation. Follow the link below to listen in on my classroom visit with Aunt Annie: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/audios_podcast/Aunt_Annie_goes_to_school.html?cid=29192398&view=podcastDetail&autoPlay=y To learn more about the Aunt Annie programme, click here: http://www.auntannie.ch/
Wauwil is Switzerland’s first “child friendly” town
Posted in Current affairs, tagged children, education, school, Switzerland, Unicef on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a rule, children in Switzerland have it good. And in Wauwil life is especially congenial. Unicef recently named it a child friendly town – a Swiss first. Read the whole story here: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index.html?cid=7956232
