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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.