Education
Maturità: Italian Students Try to Prove Intellectual Maturity
250,000 Italian students are settled in to take their high school exit exam today.
Read MoreItaly Wins Appeal to Hang Crucifixes in Classrooms
The Italian government has won an appeal for the right to hang crucifixes in state schools.
Read MoreItalian Students Protest Discrimination
Students in Calabria protest the exclusion of a disabled classmate from a school trip.
Read MoreStudent protests continue
Student protests against education cuts continued across Italy yesterday ....
Read MoreViolence as students enter Senate
Many of Italy’s educational institutions came to a standstill yesterday as students across the country protested against sweeping cuts proposed by the Education Minister, Mariastella Gelmini.
Read MoreKercher scholarship announced
The University for Foreigners in Perugia is to introduce a new scholarship in memory of Meredith Kercher, the British student who was murdered in the city on 1st November 2007.
Read MoreSchool's out for longer
A proposal by Italy’s controversial Education Minister, Mariastella Gelmini, to extend the school summer holiday till 29th September has been greeted with outrage by politicians of other parties.
Read MoreCondom vending machines in school
The Liceo Keplero in Rome, an upper school specialising in scientific subjects, incurred the wrath of the Vatican last week after installing six condom vending machines..
Read MoreA week without TV
When a school in Trevi [Umbria] asked two classes to participate in a project in which not only the children but also their parents would spend one week without watching the television at all, he families foresaw a difficult seven days.
Read MoreWedding bells for the minister?
Wedding bells may soon be ringing – or, as the Italian press puts it, there may soon be orange blossom – for the Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini
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