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Italian university switches to English

By Sean Coughlan, BBC News education correspondent 16 May 2012 Last updated at 09:49 GMT

Milan is crowded with Italian icons, which makes it even more of a cultural earthquake that 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.

Inestabilidad estable

Los que llevan toda la vida esforzándose por conseguir un pensamiento estable, con suficiente solidez como para evitar que la incertidumbre se apodere de sus habilidades, todas esas lecciones sobre cómo asegurarse el porvenir, aquellos que nos aconsejaban que nos dejáramos de bagatelas poéticas y encontráramos un trabajo fixo y etcétera, abuelos, padres, maestros, suegros, bancos y seguradoras, nos estaban dando gato por liebre.

Y el mundo, este mundo que nos han creado, que al tocarlo en la pantalla creemos estar transformando a medida de nuestro deseo, nos está modelando según coeficiente de rentabilidad, nos está licuando para integrarnos a su metabolismo reflejo.

Ebony and ivory

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don’t we?
We all know that people are the same wherever we go
There is good and bad in ev’ryone,
We learn to live, we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive together alive

BOGOF is used as a noun as in ‘There are some great bogofs on at the supermarket’ or an adjective, usually with a word such as ‘offer’ or ‘deal’ – ‘there are some great bogof offers in store’.

When you combine the first letters of the words in a phrase or the name of an organisation, you have an acronym. Acronyms are spoken as a word so NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) is not pronounced N-A-T-O. We say NATO. Bogof, when said out loud, is quite comical for a native speaker, as it sounds like an insult, ‘Bog off!’ meaning go away, leave me alone, slightly childish and a little old-fashioned.

BOGOF is the best-known of the supermarket marketing strategies. The concept was first imported from the USA during the 1970s recession, when food prices were very high. It came back into fashion in the late 1990s, led by big supermarket chains trying to gain a competitive advantage over each other. Consumers were attracted by the idea that they could get something for nothing. Who could possibly say ‘no’?