Although learning-by-discovery is being phased out of schools, the government seems prepared to accept that it is right for nursery pupils: ministers are said to have noted that in the successful education systems of Switzerland and Hungary, pupils start in the nursery with play-based education and then switch to traditional teaching at the age of six or seven.

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Before coming back to Boston College (I am a proud alum), I spent over ten years at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland simply the best executive education institute in the world leading executive education programs and founding their global Executive MBA program.

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Commissioned as part of the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All and carried out in cooperation with the Centre of Human Rights Education, Lucerne, Switzerland, the study also makes recommendations in terms of content, methodology, usability and process for the future development of education materials against racism, discrimination and intolerance.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

At IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland, leadership professor Ben Bryant introduces his executive-education students to techniques for concentrating on their breathing and becoming aware of sounds and sensations, which he says can help them center themselves at the office or in a business meeting.

WSJ: Business Skills and Buddhist Mindfulness

In the custom executive education sphere, Duke University's Duke Corporate Education, IMD of Switzerland and London Business School are ranked highly by the FT.

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In some, such as Germany and Switzerland, work-study programs are common, while in others, including Belgium and Spain, education and work are rarely associated.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section