We pick the minds of local education experts with considered contributions from Simon Gammell, Director of The British Institute; Carla Guarducci, President & CEO, Lorenzo De’ Medici – The Italian International Institute; Alessandro Colombo, Director of AD Education Italia/Accademia Italiana, and Ylenja Lucaselli, Italian MP.

They’re back! Not in the same numbers as before the pandemic, but along the streets of my Oltrarno neighbourhood, you again encounter groups of young Americans, filling the space with their bubbling enthusiasm. They’re here for the time of their life, on one of the 45 US study abroad programmes. It’s great that they’re returning.