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After the collapse of Credit Suisse in 2025 the association took over sponsorship of the Award for Best Teaching.
Credit Suisse’s crisis and merger happened in 2023, not 2025. ETH’s own pages show the Alumni Association first sponsored the teaching award in 2025.
Full reasoning
This sentence conflates two different timelines.
- Credit Suisse did not collapse in 2025. FINMA states that it approved the merger of Credit Suisse and UBS on 19 March 2023, and that the legal consummation of the merger took place on 12 June 2023. FINMA also says the merger was used to avert the “impending failure of Credit Suisse.”
- The award sponsorship change did happen in 2025. ETH Zurich’s Staffnet says the Alumni Award for Best Teaching was sponsored for the first time in 2025 by the ETH Alumni Association, and ETH’s awards page now lists the award as endowed by the ETH Alumni Association.
So the sponsorship change is tied to 2025, but the Credit Suisse collapse/merger timeline belongs to 2023, not 2025.
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- Completion of large banks merger brings clarity and stability | FINMA
FINMA had already approved the merger of Credit Suisse and UBS on 19 March 2023. Today's legal consummation brings clarity and stability... all parties involved considered the merger ... the best option to avert the impending failure of Credit Suisse.
- Taras Gerya wins the Alumni Award for Best Teaching - Staffnet | ETH Zurich
The award was sponsored for the first time this year by the ETH Alumni Association.
- Awards | ETH Zurich
The Award for Best Teaching is endowed by the ETH Alumni Association and includes prize money of CHF 10,000.
14 sections over a total distance of 140 kilometres (87 mi).
The SOLA-Stafette does have 14 sections, but its official total distance is about 114.77 km, not 140 km.
Full reasoning
The official ASVZ page for the SOLA-Stafette gives the current race length as 114.77 km and says the relay is run by a 14-person team over 14 sections. That contradicts the article’s figure of 140 kilometres.
So the number of sections is correct, but the total distance stated here is not.
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- SOLA-Stafette | ASVZ
Ein 14-köpfiges Laufteam bewältigt eine Gesamtstrecke von 114.77 km ... Die 14 Teilstrecken sind zwischen 3.69 - 14.11 km lang.
A new space is expected to open on the Hönggerberg campus in 2024.
ETH’s own project pages do not show a Hönggerberg opening in 2024. The original plan was for construction to begin in 2024, and the project is now delayed with completion expected in 2030.
Full reasoning
This claim does not match ETH Zurich’s own project timeline.
In ETH Zurich’s 2020 announcement for the planned Centre for Students and Entrepreneurs (HIC) on Hönggerberg — the project intended to house the Student Project House and related initiatives — ETH said that construction would begin in 2024. It did not say the space would open in 2024.
ETH’s current HIC project page goes further: it says the university stopped the previous project in October 2023, relaunched it, and now expects the building to be ready in 2030. That directly contradicts the statement that a new space was expected to open on Hönggerberg in 2024.
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- A place for students to develop their ideas | ETH Zurich
Construction of the new building, which is specifically for students and entrepreneurial talent, will begin on the Hönggerberg campus in 2024.
- HIC - for student and entrepreneurial initiatives of the future | ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich has stopped the previously planned project and has decided to launch a new project... This will delay the project by about two years. The building is expected to be ready in 2030.
ETH Zurich is ranked 8th worldwide (first in Switzerland) in the QS World University Rankings 2026
ETH Zurich was 7th, not 8th, in the QS World University Rankings 2026. ETH’s own news pages say it placed 7th in 2026 and moved to joint 8th only in the 2027 ranking.
Full reasoning
This ranking is off by one year.
ETH Zurich’s own June 2025 announcement about the QS World University Rankings 2026 says the university “has come in seventh place for the third time in a row.”
ETH Zurich’s June 2026 update about the QS World University Rankings 2027 then says the university ranked 8th in 2027, and explicitly describes this as a shift from 7th place in 2026 to a joint 8th place ranking.
So 8th is the 2027 result, not the 2026 result. For QS 2026, ETH Zurich’s position was 7th worldwide.
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- QS rankings: ETH Zurich secures 7th place once again | ETH Zurich
In the new Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2026, ETH Zurich has come in seventh place for the third time in a row.
- Global QS ranking: ETH Zurich excels in employability, research, and reputation | ETH Zurich
Rather than a decline in performance, the marginal shift from 7th place in 2026 to a joint 8th place ranking with University College London reflects the intense competition at the very top of global rankings.