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ROME. Italian university minister Giovanni Berlinguer has called for the break-up of Rome's La Sapieniza 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, the biggest and most overcrowded in Europe.

The university has about 200,000 students and is second to 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Mexico City in size. "My aim is to follow the example of the Sorbonne, which was divided into 14 separate institutions. In Rome I would like to create five or six," said Mr Berlinguer.

But rector Giorgio Tecce and the academic council are opposed. They quoted the 1303 Papal Bull, which says: "In the city be instituted, in perpetuity, a general studium urbis with all faculties."