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Letter from Rome
Weaver, William | March 15, 1958 issue

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The article focuses on reasons of violence in Italian Universities. Overcrowding is only one of the serious problems that concern higher education in Italy. Professors are underpaid, and their assistants are given such ridiculously low wages that few competent graduates are tempted to stay on at the university. These assistants are also severely overworked, because they are constantly called upon to give the lectures of the full professors, among whom absenteeism is a time-honored practice. The few dedicated teachers find themselves handicapped by lack of funds, lack of time and lack of equipment.

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YOUTH & violence; UNIVERSITIES & colleges; UNIVERSITIES & colleges -- Faculty; COLLEGE teachers -- Salaries, etc.; EDUCATION, Higher; ITALY
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