Switzerland figures among the seven countries under observation for the OECD Study on Adult Literacy: "Learning a Living - First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL)".

Swiss Parliament presents its new online platform of civic instruction by the name of "CiviCampus". The site explains the different political powers, the processus of creating a law, the subtleties of communal, cantonal or federal policies.

The Rectors Conference for Swiss Universities CRUS has published an information site for foreign students wanting to study in Switzerland. The site contains general, administrative, financial information plus application procedures.

One of the big successes in Swiss made Internet tools is called Doodle, a web-based meeting scheduler. The clever little tool is easy to handle and particularly useful for people who do not use a common calendar or groupware system.

The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs has published a dossier on the role of Switzerland in the UN and vice versa on the importance of Swiss membership in the United Nations for the country.

By help of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education EDK, the cantons work on the binding harmonization of obligatory school in entire Switzerland. On February 16 the concordat has been put up for consultation by the EDK.

The Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education EDK welcomes the new constitutional dispositions for education and recommends a positive voting on mai 21. There are several elements to justify such an action.

Big changes in Swiss Education System: A decisive 86 per cent of the Swiss electorate voted in favour of constitutional amendments to bring more cohesion to the - so far cantonal - school system and give the federal authorities a bigger say.

On September 15th and 16th in Lausanne, the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) organises an international conference on "Educational Systems and the Challenge of Improving Results Explaining and Enhancing Performance and Equity".

Microsoft has launched a Virtual Classroom Tour competition and invites teachers to document their own individual teaching example with ICT. Deadline is August 25th 2006. Main prize: a trip to Philadelphia to the global Innovative Teachers Forum.