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Italian universities, the less "international"
Migrantes: "Only 3% of foreign students"
unenviable primacy for our universities. The OECD average is 10%, the UK children who come to study almost 18%. The complaint of the organization: "A few houses, few scholarships" to MAXIMUM MANUEL
era of globalization of culture and education, the Italian universities hold an unenviable record: the lowest number of hosting foreign students (only 3.1% of subscribers), a figure well below the average of OECD countries (10%) and far away from the excellence represented by the United Kingdom (17.9%), Germany (11.4%) and France (11.2%). This was revealed by the Fondazione Migrantes - presenting the World Day of Migrants in Genoa on Jan. 16 - also give the reasons for this lack of capacity to attract foreign university students by the universities of our country: first reception policies in fact inadequate."a few residences, very few scholarships. " The low student mobility" in "depends in large part by practical reasons, as pointed out by the Director General of the Fondazione Migrantes Archbishop Giancarlo Perego:" First, the few university residences present, available only 2% of foreign students, compared to 17% in Sweden, 10% in Germany and 7% in France, then the few scholarships provided almost exclusively by private entities. "Did you notice, finally, the language barrier: courses in English, which is essential for the internationalization of the studies are still few and present only patchy in some universities.
Less than 55 thousand members. In the academic year 2008/2009, the total enrolled in Italian universities is reported to be 1,759,039 students, of which only 54,707 foreigners (3.1% in fact). The most numerous are the Albanians (11,380) followed by Chinese and Greek (over 5,000), Romanians (4,000) and Cameroon (3,000). The highest growth rate among the foreign members of the Chinese records, an increase of 10.9% over the previous year, thanks to the specific program of cultural exchange "Marco Polo" is defined at the ministerial level. The university with the largest total number of registered foreigners is the University of Rome (6,500 students, about 5% of the total), not by chance the largest academic institution in Europe. In 2009 graduated 6,240 students in Italy.
Geography of admissions. The faculty more "popular" among the four students are: Economics (17.6%), Medicine (14.7%), Engineering (13.2%) and Humanities (10.4% ). The greatest concentration of members is recorded in the foreign universities in central Italy - home to 34% of the students - thanks to the presence of many university towns like Rome, Perugia, Florence and Pisa. In the North West (30.3%) than the universities 'international' is located in Milan and Genoa. In the North East (26.6%) cities with a significant presence of foreign students Padua, Trieste and Bologna. Finally in the South (7.2%) the two main poles of attraction are represented by Naples and Bari The highest percentage of foreigners in the total number of students enrolled at the national level is recorded at the Bocconi University of Milan (1,000 students, representing 15 , 9%).
The business card of the Ministry of Education. In this scenario not exciting, in which Italy is the "bottom side" of international student mobility, our Ministry of Education, University and Research has a special website dedicated to foreign students who want to come to study here (www. study-in-Italy. en). The site - In collaboration with the Peaks and powered by CINECA - is naturally multi-lingual (English, German, English and French) but no Chinese. The specific contents relating to overseas students "incoming" are pretty skinny and not very interactive, even wonder why the extent of sub-section "Living in Italy" riddled with clichés that contains the recipe for pizza and suggests the best strategy to defend against pickpockets on public transport. Moreover, the data on the presence of (already) very few courses in English in our universities has remained at 2007. In short: a bad card.
(January 15, 2011) © RESERVED REPRODUCTION
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