The importance given to the continuing education is not the same in each university or high school. However, the importance of continuing education grows up and each establishment has now a continuing education center.
The continuing education centers take charge of the administrative management. They also create new programs, reconcile the request and the offer by publishing market study (in some rare universities and in a restricted way). The most developped centers study even the domains and the specialists which are the most adapted to the continuing education. Some centers also elaborated concepts of evaluation of the courses (statistics, professinal effects, etc.).
The centers of continuing education also try to create network and partnerships with the private economy. According to the declaration of the professors, the most important contacts for the continuing education are effectively the ones which imply a collaboration to the technology transfer.
Links to the centers of continuing education of swiss universites:
Links to the centers of continuing education of high schools: