We had a conversation over the phone with Prof. Claudio Corvino who teaches literature at the Rome CPIA 3, Rome’s Provincial Centre for Adult Education. His students, aged 20-30, participated yesterday in a Job Digital Lab webinar on “Analysing Your Professional Profile” with Coach Roberta Moretti and Nicole Erta, an ING Italia employee.
According to Prof. Corvino, the free programme provided by ING Italia is very useful to help his students acquire the skills necessary to recognise their talents, prepare a CV and look for employment.
Prof. Corvino’s class is an international group with Italian students and students from Venezuela, Egypt, Ukraine and other countries. Some of them are very young, right out of high school but without a diploma, “as revealed by their indolent, typically post-adolescent attitude.” Others, who have already begun working, are more concentrated on their jobs.
“The students are very close and help each other out. We close the centre at 8:30 pm and often have to kick them out,” adds Prof. Corvino smiling. He is proud that this was the first centre in Lazio to include a second integrated period: “We cover the subjects of the first two years of Italian high schools and the students study a lot – or at least they should!”
The professor tells us about the changes that have taken place in recent years. The first waves of migration were characterised by migrants with a very low education; now, the migrants are better educated, including university graduates (whose degrees are unfortunately not recognised in Italy), but who manage to complete the three-year programme in one. Amongst the most recent arrivals, there is a Ukrainian student, who has been at the school for just three weeks. He left with his entire family just before Russia’s invasion. “Now, we are waiting for others,” Prof. Corvino concludes.
