ITALY: MERIT BASED FINDING COULD RAISE STANDARD OF ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES SAYS TURIN POLYTECHNIC RECTOR
July 1st, 2012
BY LEE ADENDOORF
The rector of one of Italy's top technical universities has told University World News that recently introduced merit-based public funding of higher education could lead to the emergence of a handful of highly competitive research universities in the country.
The merit-based funding, is now worth EUR910 million, or 13% of government higher education spending. In the recent 2012 round, one of Italy's top technical institutions, the Polytechnic of Turin took out the number one spot for merit funding as a proportion of total public funding.
Its ...
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