SCIENCE SCOP

摘要

An attempt to address Italy's economic woes appears to place tough restrictions on academic hiring. An amendment to a newly enacted financial law restricts institutions to replacing at most 20% of the jobs lost through retirement and other reasons. "We cannot [hire] anyone until 2013, as there is nobody who is going to retire for the next few years," says physicist Stefano Fantoni, head of SISSA, the prestigious postgraduate science school in Trieste.