Reading time: 5 minutes Nowadays, the admission criteria of institutes of higher education present some important biases. Given that high school grades are not a good-enough measure for the required skills of a college [ … ]
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Tra i Leoni & Jobs: Interview with Marco Tabellini
Reading time: 13 minutes Marco Tabellini is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economic and Social Sciences at Bocconi before pursuing a [ … ]
Old or New Normal?
Reading time: 3 minutes Educational institutions are returning to in-presence lectures and activities as in the pre-Covid era. Yet hybrid schooling during the pandemic has shown that there is a potential for change in [ … ]
Gender gap in the Italian university system: a “reversed” leaky pipeline?
Reading time: 6 minutes Gender gap in STEM programs in Italian universities It is an indisputable truth that, in most subject areas, a substantial balance between the proportion of males and females enrolled in [ … ]
Nobel Prize in Economic sciences 2021: the winners
Reading time: 2 minutes Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics. This Monday, October 11th, three economists won the Nobel Prize in Economics for working on [ … ]
University Events: l’ABC della nuova app per gli studenti
Reading time: 6 minutes English version below Lanciata nella giornata di giovedì 26 agosto e disponibile sin da subito sia per IOS che per Android, l’applicazione University Events promette di rivoluzionare completamente il modo [ … ]
Exchange students vs Covid-19: Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore
Reading time: 9 minutes For this episode of the series “Exchange students vs Covid-19”, dedicated to Asian destinations, we decided to interview three Bocconi students who are doing three different experiences in this continent: [ … ]
Affirmative Action Worldwide: Its development and future
Reading time: 7 minutes Defined as a set of policies aimed at levelling the playing field for members of disadvantaged communities, affirmative action has been a hot topic in recent years, especially in the [ … ]
A year of learning lost
Reading time: 3 minutes The global health emergency has turned into crises in many other fields, particularly in education. Staggering reports by the World Bank and the OECD project serious economic losses in terms [ … ]
Youth: why do we feel as if we had been “ripped off” of our time and what can we do to take it back?
Reading time: 5 minutes Education as a life-jacket to beat the stasis Young men and women felt and still feel “ripped off” of all their youth dreams and possibilities, “robbed” of the memories they [ … ]