By Marco Venturini
WiR:
How and to what extent has the university world been affected by the covid-19 pandemic and what measures have been put in place by La Sapienza to alleviate the consequences of the various lockdowns?
AP: The covid-19 pandemic, which arrived unexpectedly throughout the country, forced universities to react promptly so as not to interrupt teaching and to guarantee the right to study. In my opinion the response of the whole university system was very effective. In the second semester of the 2019-2020 academic year, La Sapienza ensured that 95 per cent of its teaching was carried out remotely. In a few days, La Sapienza ensured the transition from in-person to remote learning. We have demonstrated a resilience that cannot be taken for granted for a complex and diversified institution such as ours, with 115,000 students – 9,800 from abroad – 287 different courses and 177 graduate programmes. This response has also been possible thanks to the commitment of ou
Rome s La Sapienza rated top university in the world for Classics
04 Mar, 2021
La Sapienza University in Rome has been ranked the top university in the world for
Classical Studies and Ancient History in the 2021 edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings.
The result, which reconfirms rankings held in 2018 and 2019, sees Rome knock Oxford off the podium and also makes La Sapienza the only Italian university to boast an absolute first place at an international level.
The Rome university also came
10th in Archaeology (first in Italy) in the 11th edition of the annual list compiled by the London-based global higher education analysts.