Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 2. 1969.
Sweeping reforms proposed for Italian universities
Sweeping reforms proposed for Italian universities
The Italian government has published a sweeping reform Bill to bring Italy's university system out of the middle ages and halt national student agitation.
The Bill calls for:
• Establishment of new universities;
• Re-organisation of existing schools:
• Establishment of a national education policy board;
• Abolition of the system under which professors could hold another job and ignore their leaching duties;
• Granting students a say in university government.
Too few schools, an almost complete absence of residential campuses and a system under which professors need devote little time to the university were among major complaints of students, who have on numerous occasions clashed violently with police.