Where the Future Is a Dead End
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From grade schools to universities, Europe's underfunded, antiquated
education systems are failing a new generation.
By Stefan Theil
Newsweek International
June 12, 2006 issue - 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 =A46 an hour.
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