So says Nadia Cattaneo, headmistress at the Enrico Tosi technical college in Northern Italy, said to be the best school in the country
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Which disciplines provide the smoothest transition into work? The sciences seem more reliable than the humanities
The holidays are starting, and between swimming and eating out, reading a good book is a nice way to break the tedium. Why not pick an essay on work to do so? Among unusual stories and thoughts on main world systems, you won’t get bored
Funds are reduced, there are fewer lecturers and students: here is Professor Gianfranco Viesti’s suggestion to change higher education in Italy and place guarantees on the right to study
The book by Antonella Salvatore, Director of the Center for Career Services at John Cabot University, offers encouragement for NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) facing the world of work: being competitive requires a cultural change
This is the conviction of Scott Westfahl, guru of legal training and director of executive education at Harvard Law School, the most esteemed law faculty in the world
Bruno Palier, scholar in the politics of welfare, suggests how best to develop a better and more inclusive welfare system
A pilot project has arisen from the agreement between Its Lombardia and Schneider Electrics focusing on training the human resources necessary for the challenges of digitalisation and Industry 4.0
Qualified teachers, technology, teaching methods: here are the people we can learn from to improve our schools
Sport, art and training make it possible to reactivate 75% of the young people involved in the scheme launched by ActionAid in various cities including Milan.
Martin Laba is an expert in communication. He teaches young people the skills they need to fully prepare themselves for the working world of the future
Millennials are the generation with the highest level of education and training to date. They have the soft skills the market asks for and yet companies see them as aliens. As children they were mollycoddled, as a generation they’re over criticised; yet as we emerge from the economic crisis, millennials want to show their worth. These are the words of Alessandro Rosina.
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.