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Overcrowding

Published on
September 17, 1999
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Pisa

Overcrowding in Italy's 70 universities and higher education institutes is being blamed for an average annual dropout rate of 66 per cent. The Organizzazione di Cooperazione e di Sviluppo Economico says that overcrowding is largely responsible for a rate "at least 16 per cent in excess of any other European country".

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