We are witnessing these days in the struggles of researchers and students against the Gelmini reform, which should have the green light for Nov. 30 by the Parliament. It is no coincidence that those who have chosen to protest the roofs, the only way to pierce in information gagged, and cultural sites to show their dissent, the latter are particularly significant, because with this budget law, masked to reform the university, you want to hit and weaken the culture of this country. There was a reckless cutting in many areas. A country in crisis should aim to share much on innovation and research, and then upstream on the culture in order to emancipate itself from other products on quality and excellence. Is not so, we do the opposite. E 'policy, this suicidal and pointless. But do not lose your bearings and see what does the "reform" Gelmini on some key points.
Among the elements of the bill we have the essential purpose of the researcher, more powers to the Board of Directors, which may come 40% of private emptying of the powers of the Academic Senate, deans become omnipotent, but remain under the heel of the rankings of universities deserve to receive funding (up financial parameters and not on merit of graduates). These are not all points of the reform, but they are definitely the most critical. The inclusion of private universities is in a first step towards the establishment of foundations, in true American style, that is, universities that will sustain only thanks to private investments. But this is where the problems begin. Leaving aside the fact that if a country has a public school of excellence is an old country and then died, what employers will think of finance the humanities? Faculty not known to have great economic self-interest (unless the field of publishing). And here we return to the speech I made earlier: that the government wants to put the noose to the arts, people want more ignorant and therefore easier to control. 'S why the researchers are protesting, but mostly because their shape will be essentially abolished, to take its place there will be a subject even more precarious, with a three-year contract renewable for a second time which then leads to a national competition. If it were not passed, the researcher has no right to try to work in the field that has seen him star for 6 years. This is rightly un'angheria that can not be tolerated and that those who are fighting legitimate.
However, the objective of reform is well expressed in the final of the bill, which states clearly that "the implementation of the provisions of this Act may not cause new or increased burdens on public finances." It 's a tombstone for a special public school and excellent quality, and it is an opening and an invitation to all private schools. Let's stop cutting funding for our public schools, which always has produced great minds, but for closed and static system of our country are forced to emigrate abroad. A system that does not based on innovation and research, mainly because of lack of funds, this chronic problem. So I say to stop investing money in wars, but to turn a portion of these funds towards education! Just do not buy unnecessary air-hunt, since we have no one to bomb, fortunately. Do you think that with a 20% cut in military spending would save about EUR 4 billion to be allocated to schools and universities. Surely, to paraphrase Susan Camusso, leader of the CGIL, "Maybe the books can not eat, but you learn to live!". And I believe that those who devised the reform, of books, he has not read a lot!
fielded last night by the Curia and CGIL and CISL. Before going down