Swiss education agency Yalea has ceased operations, leaving debts to language school partners unpaid according to multiple industry sources, with German agency Linguland which it acquired less than five months ago continuing to operate independently.

A citizen of Switzerland's fifth largest city has filed an initiative to parliament to ban English at The University of Zurich.

Switzerland has been allowed back into the EU's Horizon 2020 research programme, opening up negotiations for the country's direct participation in Erasmus+. However, negotiations may be delayed for a year or more.

Geneva English School, an international primary school operating for more than 50 years, is opening a secondary sector amid high demand for secondary school places in Switzerland.

The risk of losing out on collaborative research funding dominated concerns over the impact of Brexit as stakeholders committed to work more closely to lobby governments on both sides of the channel at the EAIE conference in Liverpool.

Pro Linguis, one of Switzerland’s oldest and largest education agencies which went into liquidation last month, is being acquired by StudyLingua AG, another Swiss language travel agency based in St Gallen.

After The PIE revealed last month that an uncapping of the Swiss franc from the euro is becoming financially troubling for education agencies in Switzerland, there is concern that the currency fluctuation could affect the inbound market in the near future but agents and providers both say its too early to tell.

Swiss education agencies are seriously concerned about the implications for the profitability of their business, since the value of the Swiss franc has soared, following the removal of the currency cap pegging the Swiss franc to the euro last month.