"At Europe's largest university, with 150,000 students, classes are held in circus tents because there's no money to repair crumbling lecture halls. And forget the days when a piece of brilliant research might have made headlines. Often as not, news now means the latest scandal involving professors selling grades for sex. None of that matters to Immacolata Curinga, who has master's degrees in education and psychology. "So few of us seem to be employable, we might as well have skipped university altogether." At 27, she survives as a part-time babysitter for 6 euros an hour. That's life at La Sapienza, the University of Rome" (Stephen Theil, Newsweek)
The European educational system ("underfunded, antiquated") is a dead end, says Newsweek.
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