by Sohail Nazir – LFIT expert on immigration issues He has always considered himself G.W. Bush’s junior sheriff, always willing to take care of nearby countries and conflicts of the wide southern Pacific Ocean. Well-behaved, married, conservative with Christian values. Who else could this be...
picture by CaGi By Chiara Benassi PhD Candidate at LSE, Department of Management c.benassi@lse.ac.uk Since December 23, 2010, the FIAT plant at Mirafiori (Turin) is no longer covered by the national collective agreement. Instead, a special agreement was signed by two of the three metalworker...
Glance n.4 by Umberto Marengo picture by Matt Dinnery 15/12/2010 Round Up The first fortnight of December has been a tumultuous one for the British and the Italian governments. In Britain students fighting against the raise in tuition fees occupied universities and took it to...
Glance N.3 by Giovanni Faleg 07/12/2010 Round Up Two dramatic and unforeseen events are disrupting British citizens’ daily activities and diverting their attention from the realm of government and politics, something we can and ought to control, to a narcotic observation of events that are...
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Giovanni Faleg writes for ‘ilMille’ an article about what the international institutions must learn from the natural disastre in Japan and the Libyan rebellion. The article, in Italian , is available by clicking...
by Caterina Cecchini Remarks About 2009 PISA Assessment The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the tools offered to policy makers to evaluate and compare the performances of schooling systems. Within an internationally agreed framework, based on an empirical approach which analyzes data collected according to the endogenous growth model –(http://www.pisa.oecd.org/document/58/0,3746,en_32252351_32236191_44417722_1_1_1_1,00.html),...