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The new BSS research building in Basel and the GLC in the centre of Zurich are now ready for occupation. The construction work took longer than planned, but the time has finally come: staff from the BSSE, HEST and ITET departments have begun to move in.

ETH Zurich is to rent additional space at Innovation Park Zurich as part of a phased plan, starting from this year. The move highlights Zurich’s role as an innovation hub and will strengthen research and collaboration with industry.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) calls for an inclusive education system – including at higher education level. At a panel discussion on 20 April, affected students, teaching staff and persons with expertise in the field of teaching talked about the possibilities and limitations of accessibility in education.

Language models like ChatGPT will change a lot more than just assessments at ETH Zurich. In this interview, education experts Gerd Kortemeyer and Manuel Sudau discuss the consequences of the language model for teaching staff and students.

What are the opportunities and challenges of AI for our teaching?

Degree programmes change. But how exactly does this happen? And who decides what is taught and learned?

ETH mathematician Georg Anegg spent three weeks at Ashesi University in Ghana, which offers a joint master's program in Mechatronics Engineering with ETH Zurich. In an interview published by the D-MATH News, he talks about what it's like to teach in Ashesi and what motivated him to participate in the project.

Rector Günther Dissertori has sent out a communication to lecturers calling on them to discontinue holding fully online courses. He explains why below.

Yesterday saw the publication of the latest QS Ranking, an annual ranking of the best universities worldwide. ETH Zurich made the top 10. But what’s behind these university rankings, and what do they actually mean?

On 4 May, ETH Zurich is presenting the KITE Award to honour particularly innovative teaching projects and initiatives. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final. All of them were created in the semesters of distance learning.

On 4 May, ETH Zurich is presenting the KITE Award to honour particularly innovative teaching projects and initiatives. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final. All of them were created in the semesters of distance learning.

On 4 May, ETH Zurich is presenting the KITE Award to honour particularly innovative teaching projects and initiatives. In a short series, we present the three projects that made it to the final. All of them were created in the semesters of distance learning.

Since the first of February, Günther Dissertori is the new Rector of ETH Zurich. In an interview we asked him a few “this or that” questions: lecture or seminar? Cooking or washing up? Valais or Grisons? Dumplings or gnocchi?

The ETH Executive Board has decided to continue the Critical Thinking initiative at ETH Zurich. It will be part of a larger platform encompassing courses and projects that are designed to convey interdisciplinary skills.

ETH Zurich is introducing a COVID certificate requirement for the entire study process. This will allow the upcoming Autumn Semester to kick off with a full on-site presence. Details of how this new rule is to be put into practice will follow next week.

In its recent meetings, the Executive Board approved the new programme regulations for the Bachelor of Mathematics, earmarked the funding of a research project in Val Bedretto and, for the first time, discussed a general return to the office after working from home.

Three newly designed CAS programmes, one of them taught jointly with EPFL, a new composition for the Strategy Commission and the appointment of two new members to the Research Commission: these were some of the most important decisions taken by the Executive Board in its most recent meetings.

Professorships are one of the focal points of the rETHink project. But what does the professorship of the future look like? Workstream 2 of rETHink is responsible for finding out, and they completed a comprehensive analysis of this question last year. Project focus groups drew attention to autonomy – both on an academic and an organisational level – as a vitally important aspect of professorships at the university.

New rules will apply to those starting their doctoral studies at ETH in the autumn. After two extensive consultation rounds, the ETH Executive Board passed the revised version of the Ordinance on Doctoral Studies on 26 January 2021. The new guidelines make it compulsory for doctoral students to have a second supervisor and stipulate more precise rules for collaboration between professors and doctoral students.

Thomas Vogel, Professor of Structural Engineering, has greatly influenced structural engineering in Switzerland and has a well-earned reputation after serving in various capacities at ETH Zurich. After 28 years of serving the university, the passionate civil engineer is retiring.

Atmospheric physicist Ulrike Lohmann will take over from Edoardo Mazza as President of the Lecturers’ Conference (KdL). To further develop hybrid learning, the new president aims to focus on the tried and tested peer review process in teaching.

Organising session examinations during the coronavirus pandemic is an extraordinary logistical challenge. In August, more than 12,000 students will take these exams. After weeks of intense planning, the Rectorate has published its health and safety concept for exam season.

The Department of Mathematics is responsible for mathematics tuition in all of the degree programmes that ETH offers. It has used the corona-related emergency operation to switch to remote teaching. Four students and lecturers tell of their experiences.

The Rector's directive on teaching measures due to the coronavirus pandemic has been updated to address the upcoming end-of-semester and session examinations. The revised document also covers qualifying examinations for admission to doctoral studies and outlines measures for those performing mandatory military service during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anyone employed at ETH on an hourly wage or working as teaching assistant will receive 80% of their salary during emergency operations, even if the agreed performance can only be partially rendered, or not at all.

The Rector has amended the directive on measures with regard to teaching due to the coronavirus pandemic, releasing the second version on 27 March.

Ueli Maurer, Director of Studies  of the Department of Computer Science, talks in an interview about the challenges of the transition to online teaching and how things will continue. The new experiences are also to be incorporated into future teaching.

Dr. Gerd Kortemeyer is the new head of the Administrative Department Educational Development and Technology (LET). He takes over from Dr. Daniel Halter, who is moving to the University of Applied Sciences, Northwestern Switzerland.

Virtual realities, interactive platforms and a more social form of face-to-face learning: specialists from Educational Development and Technology as well as the departments are transforming teaching at ETH.

It’s official: there will be no more attendance certificates at ETH Zurich. Instead, ETH Rector Sarah Springman wants to work with departments to refine instruments that motivate students to learn during the semester.

Starting this autumn, refugees who have started or completed a degree in a technical or scientific field in their home country will be able to attend lectures at ETH Zurich.

ETH Zurich and the SWITCH foundation have decided to launch the Safe Exam Browser Consortium.

The study programme Science in Perspective enables students at ETH Zurich to develop new perspectives on their core subjects’ scientific and technological issues.

ETH Zurich encourages students to become more engaged in the teaching and learning process. The Student Innovedum project will enable students to transform their ideas into reality.

The Lecturers’ Conference has a new President: Edoardo Mazza, a Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, will be taking over from Felicitas Pauss (D-PHYS).

On 27 April 2016 the KITE Award for “Key Innovation in Teaching at ETH” will be presented for the first time. KdL-President Felicitas Pauss has written a column about the significance of the new award in the latest issue of “life” magazine.

Analysis is key to every area of science – and architecture students are now learning this through a very hands-on approach.

In the Deliscope blog, ETH educational developers regularly inform readers about innovative teaching trends.

More than four fifths of students at ETH Zurich are satisfied or very satisfied with their studies at ETH Zurich. This is the result of the 2015 Student Survey of Satisfaction. The Executive Board acknowledged the survey in July.

How should new students get to know the ETH? Is one welcome event enough? Not at all, thinks columnist Julia Wysling and explains why.