Stabilisation programme jeopardises top position in education and research
Berne/Zurich, 4.12.2015 - The cost-cutting programme announced by the Confederation jeopardises the high quality of education and research in Switzerland. The ETH Board regards it as incomprehensible that education, research and innovation are intended to be affected disproportionately strongly – with over half a billion francs – in the “2017–2019 stabilisation programme”. This, in particular, since the most recent favourable evaluations of EPFL and ETH Zurich by external auditing bodies dovetail with numerous other positive assessments in the past which confirmed the excellent performance of the institutions of the ETH Domain in the service of Switzerland as a centre of thought and creative activity.