Report: Italy redraws the classroom map — a cap on foreign students and a ban on the niqab

Deutsche Welle — Arabic has shed light on the story of “Report: Italy redraws the classroom map — a cap on foreign students and a ban on the niqab,” presenting the development as the main point of the available source material.

The available account indicates that the Italian government has approved new rules setting quotas for certain categories of foreign pupils in first-year classes and banning face coverings in educational institutions, with financial penalties attached. The report also raises the following questions: which groups are covered by these measures, and what are the reasons behind them?

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