Federal Act
on Funding and Coordination of the Swiss
(Higher Education Act, HEdA)

¹ Every four years, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall provide the Fed­er­al As­sembly with a re­port on:

a.

the ef­fect­ive­ness of pub­lic ex­pendit­ure;

b.

the ef­fects of the fund­ing sys­tem on the fin­ances of the Con­fed­er­a­tion and the Can­tons, on their high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions, on dis­cip­lines and on oth­er high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions re­ferred to in this Act;

c.

the com­pet­it­ive­ness of high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions;

d.

the em­ploy­ab­il­ity and activ­it­ies of gradu­ates after com­ple­tion of their high­er edu­ca­tion stud­ies.

² It shall first hear the High­er Edu­ca­tion Coun­cil.