Качество на висшето образование и университетски реформи: италианският случай в дългосрочна перспектива
Quality of Higher Education and University Reforms: The Italian Case in a Long-term Perspective

Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that tensions between mass access and quality of higher education (usually resolved in favor of the former) are at the roots of the problems currently faced by the Italian universities. Once de facto reserved to relatively small elite selected on the basis of social privilege, they were open to ever larger strata of the population since the 1960s when Italy started its brusque and uneven modernization process. The way the new “mass university” was created, however, ended up degrading the overall quality of Italian higher education since no measures were taken to safeguard standards of quality once guaranteed by the limited dimensions of the whole system. Only recently, some steps have been taken in the opposite direction, mainly with the latest reform of 2010 whose outcome however remains to be seen.

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