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Benefits that guarantee access to basic state care (training grants, reduced premiums for compulsory health insurance, etc.) Benefits that are paid in addition to insufficient or exhausted social security benefits (supplementary benefits for old-age and disability insurance, unemployment benefits, family allowances, etc.).
The occupational pension scheme is known as Berufliche Vorsorge in German, Prévoyance professionnelle in French, and Previdenza professionale in Italian. In daily life, it is more often referred to as “the second pillar” (German: die Zweite Säule , French: le deuxième pilier , Italian: il secondo pilastro ).
The University of Zurich (UZH, German: Universität Zürich) is a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, [9] with its 28,000 enrolled students. [10] It was founded in 1833 [11] from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine which go back to 1525, and a new faculty of philosophy.
The Graduate School of Business Administration Zurich (GSBA Zurich) [1] was a business school in Switzerland with several international collaborations (USA, UK, China, South Africa). The flagships were an international and a global MBA. The school was founded in 1968 as "Oekreal Management Zentrum," offering Swiss professional degrees. [2]
A dedicated EU Blue Card section was added to the EU Immigration Portal on 7 June 2016. [13] The site provides country-specific information to potential Blue Card applicants. It states that only EU Member State authorities may issue Blue Cards and warns against any unofficial application sites which may contain incorrect information or charge ...
Howard Glennerster, a London School of Economics economist, was an early proponent of the graduate tax in the 1960s along with several other LSE economists. In 1968, Glennerster had identified problems with the higher education system which was at that time funded almost exclusively through general taxation, “in the United Kingdom, higher education is now financed as a social service.
They are also used with the prefix "CH-" as ISO 3166-2 codes of Switzerland, e.g. CH-SZ for the canton of Schwyz. SFSO also uses a numerical code ordering the cantons by their constitutional order (1 to 26).
The former Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur was itself made up of schools with long histories: the Technikum Winterthur was founded in 1874 as Switzerland's largest engineering school, and the Höhere Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungsschule was established in 1968. Both schools were the first of their kind in Switzerland.