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EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

Switzerland

2026

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2025

[There have been no reforms]

2024

New regulations for the upper secondary Baccalaureate schools

The new regulations governing recognition of the baccalaureate and the new framework curriculum for upper secondary baccalaureate schools came into force on 1 August 2024. This marks the successful conclusion of the project to further develop the baccalaureate schools, which has been carried out by the federal government and the EDK since 2018.

This chapter provides a thematic and chronological overview of national reforms and policy developments since 2022. The web pages that follow group reforms in the following broad thematic areas:

  • Early childhood education and care
  • General school education
  • Vocational education and training
  • Higher education
  • Adult education and training

Inside each thematic area, reforms are organised chronologically. The most recent reforms are described first.

Bilateral Agreements

On 21 June 1999 Switzerland and the European Union (EU) and their Member States signed seven bilateral agreements, including the Swiss-EU Bilateral Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons. Through this Agreement the basic principles of free movement of persons as applied within the EU were introduced in Switzerland.

Switzerland, represented by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), is participating in the Copenhagen Process in the field of vocational training. This process aims to guarantee, at national and international level, permeability, transparency and mobility.

Global and Intercultural Dimension in Curriculum Development

Switzerland is taking part in the Bologna Process in the field of higher education. This process aims to guarantee, at national and international level, permeability, transparency and mobility and hence in the European context to work towards strengthening Europe’s competitiveness as a learning location.

The Copenhagen Process is a European Union (EU) strategy to improve the attractiveness of vocational and professional education and training. This process aims to guarantee, at national and international level, permeability, transparency and mobility in general education and in vocational and professional education and training. This promotes mobility within and outside national borders.