March 10, 2006
Italian Physicists Warn of Coming Dearth of College Professors
Two Italian physicists warn that Italian universities are headed for a "demographic tsunami" because of their aging professoriate.
In a study published in the February issue of Le Scienze (the Italian edition of Scientific American), Stefano Zapperi and Francesco Sylos Labini report that 22.5 percent of tenured instructors at Italian universities are over 60 years of age, compared with 13 percent in France and 8 percent in Britain.
Only 4.6 percent of Italian university
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