ITALY: Higher education pension age under discussion in Italy
September 1st, 2010
Lee Adendorff
The pension age for Italy's aging professorial body could be lowered to 65 years under reforms currently being discussed in the Italian parliament, in an attempt to address what the education minister Mariastella Gelmini has described as an urgent need for 'generational turnover'.
Italy has the oldest academic staff in Europe, with 54% of professors over the age of 50, compared with 41% in France, 30% in the UK and 29% in Germany, according to figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat, analysed by the Ministry for Education and ...
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