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1,000 people ask for training courses in Sardinian in the University of Sassari

NEWS IN BRIEF. A student body wants the courses to be organized starting from 2012-2013

University students' group Su Majolu has submitted 1,000 signatures before the rector of the University of Sassari, Attilio Mastino, and the president of Sardinia, Ugo Cappellacci, so that an official training course in Sardinian is organized from 2012-2013 onwards.

The students began a campaign to collect the signatures in late 2011. They consider that the course is needed in order to train potential teachers in pre-school and primary school so that they can teach Sardinian, the island's own language.

Su Majolu members also argue that the knowledge of Sardinian is important not only in the education system, but also in the world of work, since it is the "the language of the Sardinian workers".