In Italy, Have Higher-Education Reforms Created a 'Big Bordello'?

Government-driven changes have led to charges that the system is more dysfunctional than ever

A 49-year-old tax accountant might seem an unlikely poster child for national controversy. But as a law student at Rome's Guglielmo Marconi Online University, Lanfranco Fichera is a participant in two of the most hotly debated developments in Italian higher education today: experience credits and online universities.

Though he works full time and supervises a staff of nine, Mr. Fichera

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