Other Institutions of Higher Education
The Swiss university law considers as institutions of higher education according to articles 3 and 12 further:
- Stiftung Fernstudien Schweiz, Brig
- the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (Institut de hautes études en administration publique - Idheap) in Lausanne
- the Graduate Institute Kurt Bösch (Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, IUKB) in Sion
Read more about this topic: Universities In Switzerland
Famous quotes containing the words institutions, higher and/or education:
“Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of man, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station . . . if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their woman.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)