One of Italy’s leading universities – the Politecnico di Milano – is going to switch to the English language.

The university has announced that from 2014 most of its degree courses – including all its graduate courses – will be taught and assessed entirely in English rather than Italian.

The waters of globalisation are rising around higher education – and the university believes that if it remains Italian-speaking it risks isolation and will be unable to compete as an international institution.

“We strongly believe our classes should be international classes – and the only way to have international classes is to use the English language,” says the university’s rector, Giovanni Azzone.

Italy might have been the cradle of the last great global language – Latin – but now this university is planning to adopt English as the new common language. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17958520

See: BBC