Professor Rosemary Salomone presented a paper on “The Rise of Global English: The Challenges for Language Rights Across
Education” at the First Worldwide Congress for Language Rights at the University of Teramo in Italy on May 22nd. The paper examines questions of institutional autonomy, academic integrity, the right of professors to teach, the right of students to learn, and the implications for equal opportunity in a case challenging Polytechnic University of Milan’s plan to offer all masters and doctoral courses in English. The case is now pending before the Italian Constitutional Court.
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