The Italian system of higher education, through its recent process of transformation, represents a paradigmatic example of the complex difficulties involved in the transition from elite to mass higher education (Trow, 1974). In truth, problems and difficulties faced by the Italian academic enterprise today are not peculiar, and have been grappled with in many other systems around the world. However, the speed of the transformation process in Italy has particularly sharpened the distinctions between an elite and a mass system of higher education.
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Moscati, R. (2007). Italy. In: Forest, J.J.F., Altbach, P.G. (eds) International Handbook of Higher Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4012-2_42
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