ITALY: Striking Assistant Professors delay beginning of academic year
October 1st, 2010
BY Lee Adendorff
The beginning of the academic year in Italy has been delayed in dozens of universities as Italy's ricercatori or assistant professors stage a series of protests throughout the country.
An estimated ten thousand or around half of the country's assistant professors are refusing to teach non-obligatory classes to protest budget cuts and reforms currently under scrutiny in the Italian parliament.
From Turin and Venice in the north to Bologna, Siena, Rome, Naples, Cagliari and Palermo, the protest has caused a postponement of several weeks and, in ...
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