Education

Offer free daycare and day schools
Every child should have access to free daycare, preschool and Day school programs including cheap and healthy meals. This means that all children have the same opportunities and receive the care they need. People no longer have to choose between family and career for financial reasons.

Promote interdisciplinary methodological skills
The educational plans at all levels should be designed for interdisciplinary methodological skills and instil in students an enthusiasm for lifelong learning from an early age. The aim is to learn how to use tools such as AI responsibly at an early stage and to promote media literacy for independent opinion formation.

Promote emotional education
In addition to technical training, schools should also better promote children's personal development. Students should learn to recognize, describe and demand their emotions, needs and wishes as well as learn psychological basics in order to grow into an emotionally healthy generation.

Invest in schools
The infrastructure of the schools and the working conditions of the teachers should be massively improved.

Invest in universities
Switzerland's technical colleges and universities are among the best in the world. Further investments should be made in these institutions in order to be able to provide enough national and international study places.

Reduce tuition fees
Tuition fees for trade schools, technical colleges and universities should be massively reduced or abolished entirely in order to minimise barriers to access to education.

Make apprenticeships more attractive
The apprenticeship and the dual education system as a whole should be made more attractive and developed into a model for other European countries. Companies offering apprenticeships should be financially supported, especially if they train adult learners, thus enabling the learners to receive higher wages and better working conditions.

Offer retraining courses for career changes
Broad-based new retraining courses are to be set up and the barriers to apprenticeships for adults are to be reduced in order to enable every person to change careers. In this way, people from dwindling industries can be picked up and put on a new professional path.

Promote international exchange programs
Semesters abroad offer students valuable experience during their training or studies. Programs such as Erasmus+ should be promoted and Switzerland should participate in them.