Zurich and Vaud are expanding school exchanges as French lessons in Zurich’s primary schools come under political pressure, reports SRF. French teaching in primary schools is under pressure in German-speaking Switzerland. But Silvia Steiner and Frédéric Borloz, the education directors of Zurich and Vaud, are…
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