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Italian schools to place limit on foreign students.

Posted by Sav D'Souza on Thursday, March 18, 2010

 

A discriminative or justified policy?

Italy’s Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini has provoked a debate at plans to impose caps on the amount of foreign students in Italian classes.

Under the new guidelines, which will come into effect in September this year, schools in Italy will be able to limit the amount of foreigners in classes to 30 ...

Life & Style | show all

The pursuit of pleasure

Posted by Catherine Hutt on Friday, June 11, 2010

 

”Dull and insignificant moments in life must be made decorous and agreeable with suitable decorations and rituals. Ugly things must be hidden, unpleasant and tragic facts swept under the carpet wherever possible. Everything must be made to sparkle..!” (Luigi Barzini, The Italians)


One of the many delights of this fair country is the fabulous ...

Art & Culture | show all

The modern Rome is growing

Posted by Silvia Prosperi on Friday, May 7, 2010

 

The modern Rome is growing, great architects are almost competing in a big effort to combine ancient tradition, natural environment and new design… among unfailing debates and controversies!
Anyway, little by little the face of the Eternal City is changing: the MAXXI Museum by Zaha Hadid ...

Living in Rome | show all

from north Italy to Rome: I'm the real expat!

Posted by Giuseppe Gandolfi on Thursday, July 1, 2010

 

If you were been told that a northerner in Rome would feel like an expat you would not believe it. In the end I found myself having more foreigner friends than the italian ones. You can notice it when Facebook starts to suggest you more foreigner friends than the italian ones, or your phone rings with non italian names on it. Isn't that weird? ...