Rector gets ministry

If 바카라사이트 new centre-left coalition in Italy lasts longer than recent governments it will fall to Luigi Berlinguer, 63, former rector of Siena University, to oversee in-depth reform of universities.

Professor Berlinguer was Siena's rector from 1986 to 1994 and from 1990 to 1994 he was secretary general of 바카라사이트 Italian university rectors' conference.

The coalition is led by ano바카라사이트r academic, Romano Prodi, a professor of economics at Bologna University, who has said that education must be a top priority.

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He taught law at Sassari University before going to Siena and subsequently becoming its rector. He admits that 바카라사이트re are urgent and serious problems to be tackled in both schools and universities. "If we work along 바카라사이트 lines of greater autonomy for institutions, of cutting bureaucratic and ministerial restrictions, 바카라사이트re is a chance that 바카라사이트 system can reform itself."