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Large school could have significant impact on area schooling options GENEVA / LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The early October news seemed to come out of nowhere, that the Lake Geneva region would have yet another new international school, but this time a relatively large one that has managed to find space in the crowded and tight [...]
Cantonal vote also rejects education initiative LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A low turnout of voters in canton Vaud, 40 percent, Sunday 4 September rejected a proposal to give long-term foreign residents the right to vote, with 69 percent saying no to the initiative that was supported by the political left. If the measure had passed Vaud [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Sometimes you step out of the office for a couple hours and come back to interesting surprises. I found an e-mail for me, addressed to “Grüezi Mrs. Lunch!” I love the multilingualness of Switzerland, but when a Swiss German decides my first name is Geneva and my family name is Lunch I [...]
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swissinfo’s new iPad application, released over the weekend, is making waves for its creative presentation as well as its precedent-setting use of nine languages. The app which became available free of charge 11 December. Scott Capper, head of multimedia and community, says to his knowledge the previous largest number of languages [...]
A hitherto unknown language called Koro, spoken by people in NE India has been discovered by researchers investigating languages in danger of extinction it was reported 5 October. The researchers, part of a National Geographic project in Arunachal Pradesh, were surprised to hear a language that they had not heard before. Koro is part of [...]
Irina Bokova, a diplomat from Bulgaria, has been named director-general of Unesco, the first woman to hold the post. She is currently Bulgaria’s ambassador to France and Monaco. Bokova was selected by Unesco’s executive board over Egypt’s culture minister, Farouk Hosny, after five rounds of ballots in September 2009. The organization’s general conference voted to [...]
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