The Corona-crisis hits the education sector with full force. In a letter to Federal councillor Guy Parmelin (60, SVP) warns of the Swiss Federation for adult learning (SVEB) in front of a “large number of bankruptcies and thus a structural weakening”, does not pick up the Federal government to the private providers in the same sector, self-employed workers with fail-compensation under the arms – and quickly.
“The companies save always first at the training,” says Matthias Aebischer (52), SVEB-President and the Bernese SP-Nationalrat. “The means Many of our 700 members are also able to do after the Corona-crisis little more on my own two feet stand.”
Alone, from March to may attributed to the industry – with an annual turnover of around 5.6 billion – with over a billion francs in default.
Interest-free loans, such as Federal guarantees for the SMEs, help as little, as Aebischer. “Members of the Union you can not pay back. To the training industry is back where it was two months ago, it will take years.”
Three-quarters of the course participants over 60
a Particularly strong community colleges are affected. The Situation is dramatic, says Pius Knüsel, Director of the national University of Zurich: “three weeks Ago we had to cancel all of your courses and since then, we have to save where we can.”
But around 50 percent of the fixed costs incurred to continue, because already in the programme for the coming Winter was going to worked. “Without direct payments, we consider, perhaps, for two more months,” said knuesel. He will assume this to look at other large community colleges in a similar way.
to make matters worse, around three-quarters of the participants are older than 60. “These people,” says Knüsel, “will not be returning to the first relaxations of the measures of the Federal government immediately into the public life.”
