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Failing faculties: a survey of language faculty publications at Italian universities INTRODUCTION
The survey follows on naturally from our recent publication of Martin Putz's German language history repeats itself. It alleged, among other things, allocation of tenured posts in German at the University of Pisa on the basis of criteria other than merit, a notoriously widespread and longrunning practice in Italian academia. Our survey is also intended to satisfy specific reader curiosity about the standards of publications by those who have, consciously or unconsciously, been active or passive accomplices in almost two decades of unresolved job discrimination against foreign-language lecturer colleagues working alongside them. The issue has received much publicity in the international press and the University of Pisa has been specifically singled out by the European Commission as one of six model centres of such discrimination. For more on this, see the classic articles on Italian university corruption in JUST Response. A wider selection is now also available at www.pacitti.org. JUST Book Reviews has endeavoured to be, as always, fair and objective in its assessments whilst at the same pulling no punches where deserved. Results are often predictably colourful and should make for entertaining reading. All the reviews in this section were written by Domenico Pacitti, the founder-editor of JUST Book Reviews. Our thanks go to those who kindly assisted by sending in books for review and material obtained from lectures. You are cordially invited to send your comments, corrections and suggestions for further appropriate books you would like us to review in this section to JUST Book Reviews at [email protected]. Return to "Failing faculties" REVIEWS
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