higher education

It's expensive and doesn't always guarantee well-paying employment after graduation

I sat on the high-speed train departing from the station of Milano Centrale with destination Firenze Santa Maria Novella, where I would meet some friends who had been studying Italian in Tuscany over the summer through Yale University’s Italian Department....

Rome's noted La Sapienza University has been ranked in the world's top 150 seats of higher learning according to the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, an independent body. The largest Italian state university...

How a student from Rome arrived in the United States to finish a thesis and in her forties  found herself at the top of her university career in America: in this interview Katia Passerini explains the organization of the American...

For today’s college students the idea of education as “culture” may be dead. Why? Maybe because rapidly changing technology keeps us looking forward instead of backward in order to keep up with it? Or maybe because our fragmented society has...

Social media can connect Italian language and culture communities and learners in innovative online learning spaces that extend traditional physical boundaries of the classroom and provide real-life, socially relevant situations with authentic exchanges, engaging learners in Italian