«BOLOGNA PROCESS » WITHIN THE ITALIAN UNIVERSITY El

This paper exposes the Italian reform of higher education beginning from the ministerial law of 1999 and put really in practice in the Italian university since 2001. The structure of the university, the different types from courses, doctorate and agencies of established evaluation and advi-sing are explained, as well others decrees concerning documents, spe-cially the supplement to diploma. Later the article analyzes the reality of the change in the higher Italian education and presents the difficulties due on the one hand to the increase of the demand of higher education in the country and by another one to the economic difficulties motivated by the budgetary limitations and the little tradition of the Italian university with respect to the diversification of the financing sources. The author comments next the change about the methodology and the difficulties and contradictions between the model proposed by the process of Bologna and the reality of the university students in whom the profile has changed and in its majority not rather deals with students of twenty ye-ars dedicating full time to yours studies but the students that at the same time works and adult people who have arrived after the university. Referring to structure of degrees, he comments the difficulty that has had to happen of the traditional Italian structure of «laurea quatriennale » to first cycles of three years in which in many occasions the studies hav