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The changing role of universities in Italy: placement services

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  • Piazza Roberta

    (Dipartimento Di Processi Formativi, Università di Catania, Via Biblioteca 4, 95124 Catania, Italy)

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The centuries old concept of a university as a self regulating body based on freedom and a priori trust granted by society as a whole is now in crisis due to the European reforms initiated in the nineties. Ambivalence and contradictions in the academic world itself have further accentuated this crisis, a crisis that now questions the role of knowledge in society and a university's very raison d'ětre. Consequently, while there is recognition of the right for autonomy in the pursuit of knowledge there is a perception that society should be able to turn to universities for assistance in solving its basic problems. From this comes a concept of a university, and of knowledge, increasingly ready to respond to the claims of its diverse stakeholders. These external pressures strengthen the links between a university and external economic and social developments.Placement services are one of the methods used by universities to organize their connections to society and the external environment as a whole and is one that offers added value to the university's internal or external customers. Therefore, this study investigates the placement services in the Italian universities, with the aim to recognize capacity and limitations to reconceptualise their role in regards of Third Mission and manage them towards that.

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  • Piazza Roberta, 2011. "The changing role of universities in Italy: placement services," Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, Sciendo, vol. 17(1-2), pages 173-185, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:jpepsi:v:17:y:2011:i:1-2:p:173-185:n:11
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