Sentence examples for Swiss conference from inspiring English sources

The Swiss Conference of Cantonal Directors of Education increased its efforts to achieve some educational unity, but great diversity remained.

The educational goals and learning content in E&S are formulated in the federal curriculum (Swiss Conference of Commercial Training and Examination Branches 2011b).

In Switzerland, with approximately 30,000 trainees, commercial apprenticeships are by far the most popular of the VET programs among male and female youths (Swiss Conference of Commercial Training and Examination Branches 2011a).

The school-based general education is identical and standardized across all branches, whereas the company-based and industry-based vocational training is more flexible and varies among the branches because of their specific business structures and processes (Swiss Conference of Commercial Training and Examination Branches 2011b).

In October, the general secretary of an international information, communication and technology union representing more than 3 million workers wrote a letter of protest requesting an emergency meeting with a Swiss conference that had invited Bainimarama to speak: "We protest that the ITU [International Telecommunication Union] is showcasing the leader of an illegitimate regime.

Elsewhere, the Swiss bishops conference issued a statement recognizing that it had "undervalued the breadth of the phenomenon".

In reaction to this and other statements, the Swiss Bishops Conference issued a declaration officially withdrawing its confidence in him.

Widely seen as a traditionalist, the theologian, Archbishop Kurt Koch, above, 60, is bishop of Basel and has served as head of the Swiss Bishops Conference.

Inside the conference, Swiss survivalist Piero San Giorgio was exhorting the crowd to learn how to farm and invest in gold.

Attendees from previous years have remarked on the rising number of private Swiss bankers attending the conference with relatively little to contribute in the way of world debate.

"The reason is there is a huge conference of Swiss watchmakers in Geneva, which of course takes precedence in Switzerland, that being their bread and butter".