Italian court pushes back on the race towards English

By Rosemary Salomone. After six years of winding through the Italian courts, the case challenging the Polytechnic Institute of Milan’s decision to offer all graduate programmes in English reached a final legal conclusion on 29 January. The question now is whether the controversy fades from sight or the implications push to the boiling point a simmering debate over the proper place of English in academia. More...