Italian university switches to English for success

Stephen Jewkes:

- Italians do it better. At least that's what the T-shirts say. The problem is in what language?

Politecnico di Milano, one of Italy's leading universities, thinks it should be English.

The 149-year-old university, located in Italy's business capital Milan, is set to become the first Italian place of higher learning to teach all its graduate courses in English when it kicks off its academic year in 2014.

The aim is to kit out its students with the right stuff to gain access to the global jobs market. It's also meant to attract top-class international students at a time when competition among universities worldwide is hotting up.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 21, 2012 2:06 AM
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