FHNW School of Education

The FHNW School of Teacher Education is an innovative university with almost 3,800 students on three campuses in northwestern Switzerland. It offers a wide range of high quality research to improve teaching at primary and secondary level. It also offers courses in special education and speech therapy. The programmes successfully combine study and practice.

The FHNW School of Education ranks amongst Switzerland’s leading teacher education institutions. Through its educational programme and its vocationally oriented research activities focused on teaching, education and systems, it maintains and develops the educational systems deployed in the north-west of Switzerland. With almost 3,800 students attending its regular courses of study and in excess of 23,000 people attending its continuing education programmes, the School is one of the largest of its kind in German-speaking Switzerland.

The FHNW School of Education provides end-to-end teacher education at all levels from primary through to upper secondary education and offers education in special-needs education and psychology. The studies are modular and allow a high degree of individualisation and flexibility.

The FHNW School of Education features an all-encompassing portfolio in the realm of professional development and counselling at all levels, plus vocationally oriented research activities focused on teaching, education and systems.

The educational portfolio offered by the FHNW School of Education covers the full gamut of teacher education opportunities, ranging from pre-primary through to upper secondary education, as well as adult and continuing education. It also offers training in special-needs education and psychology, plus continuing education and counseling at all levels, as well as applied research and development. All its courses are modular and allow a high degree of individualisation and flexibility.

The research and development undertaken at the FHNW School of Education focuses primarily on the scholastic setting and the activity of teaching. This includes the school as an institution and organisation, and the teaching and learning provided inside it.