Concentrating resources in the «healthy» part of the system is especially important at a time when funding is very limited and new positions are scarce: two conditions that are currently met by
the Italian academic system.
He wanted to do a Ph.D., but
the Italian academic system — where students have to be selected through nationwide exams — wasn't flexible enough for people like him with cross-disciplinary experiences.
In an interview with the newspaper Corriere della Sera, he praised Telethon for introducing American values into
the Italian academic system, so that young academics get the credit for the work they perform.
Not exact matches
Young researchers on short - term contracts in particular view the law as the last — or at least the latest — blow to their professional ambitions at the hands of the
Italian academic research
system.
A large part of the problem, it seems, lies in Italy?s cumbersome
academic appointments
system, which is difficult for
Italians to navigate and virtually impenetrable for foreigners.
For the study — «Last name analysis of mobility, gender imbalance, and nepotism across
academic systems,» published July 3, 2017 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — Allesina and postdoctoral scholar Jacopo Grilli, PhD, acquired lists of the surnames of all
Italian academics in the four years 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015.