INSTITUTIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OF ITALY ON THE SPECIALTY “TOURISM”

Abstract

Analyzed the institutional and organizational support of educational activities of higher education institutions in Italy in the specialty “Tourism”, which is the key to the successful functioning of educational activities. The regulatory legal acts of Italian higher education institutions included in the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (as of 2020), including the legal framework of the Italian higher education system, statutory and intra-university documents, and the like, have been investigated. The institutional and organizational support of the educational activities of Italian higher education institutions is characterized and their features are revealed. The goals of educational programs in the specialty “Tourism” of each of the rating higher education institutions are clarified and the analysis of the main professional orientations of the graduates of the corresponding universities is carried out. The purpose of the article. Highlight the institutional and organizational support of educational activities of Italian universities, which train specialists in «Tourism», by solving problems on the analysis of legal documents of such free economic zones, presentation of institutional and organizational support of educational activities and identifying their features. The study used theoretical and empirical research methods, including: analysis of the implemented statutory documents in the Italian higher education system; analysis of the peculiarities of the autonomy of Italian universities; comparison of the legal basis for the educational activities of Italian universities. Thus, it was found that the institutional basis of the educational activities of the Free Economic Zone of Italy in public and private ownership are the statutory documents and internal university regulations, which are based on regulations approved by the Italian government. Such documents in each of the five free economic zones are SAPIENZA Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”; University of Roma Studies «Tor Vergata»; University of Genoa Studies; University of Perugia Studies; Università degli Studi di Catania – became: university statute; regulations on administration, finance and accounting; general organizational provisions of the university; code of ethics; rules of conduct for employees; educational regulations of the university, etc. In the case of the structural units of the Italian Free Economic Zones, they are largely identical, comprising the Rector, the Academic Senate, the Board of Directors and the Administrative Departments, and are funded by tuition fees and financial assistance from public and private universities from the Italian Ministry of Education. (Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca – MIUR) and the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Italy (Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze). As for the peculiarities of educational training «Tourism», their goals, requirements and professional orientation are more identical in all free economic zones – is the training of highly qualified personnel in the field of tourism, on entry, the presence of a document of complete secondary education and the possibility of further employment in tourism enterprises. own business, etc.