The rectors to Mattarella: the University abandoned the system at risk

the ROME - The Italian university finds two entries – chancellors and university Council, to criticize openly government policies on higher education. In the closing days (will be Monday) of the budget Law), noted, as he described the Republic, which lacks a billion to the three required a loud voice by the minister Lorenzo Fioramonti, the Conference of rectors has decided to write a letter to the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and the chairman of the Board Giuseppe Conte in which he summarizes as follows: “This year, more than ever, the Law of budget, forget the university. Not a measure of investment. Not an attention signal”.

The Conference of the rectors expressed their “profound concern” for the diametrically opposite direction to that: “Despite the stagnation, even the emerging Countries are focusing on university and research, Italy no”. Manfredi: "We have to cover the no-tax area" Crui asking the Government for an act of responsibility and a concrete signal, “confides about any room to maneuver is still possible on the occasion of the discussion of the measure in the Chamber”. The Conference, therefore, paints an uncertain future: “these Are issues that could not be postponed already years ago. Today should be considered emergencies that threaten the resilience of the entire system of higher education and all that from this derives, first of all, the future of young people”. For the first time Crui speaks of “the seal of the university system”, a concept advanced in these weeks by the same minister Fioramonti. the Cun: "Policies on precarious abandoned" The national university Council, in the meeting yesterday, writes this: “The serious overall shortage of public resources devoted to the university system was confirmed and enhanced by the device of legislative”. The four points underlined by the Cun: serves to provide for a substantial increase in resources for the university system, especially for the part not constrained by the ordinary Fund, “making it even more flexible management of financial requirements of public universities”; and we must continue in the funding of the extraordinary Plan for the career progression of researchers indefinitely in possession of a scientific Qualification, and continue in the funding of the extraordinary Plan for researchers, fixed-term (Type B) made in the last few years “and, moreover, is put in place, but now suppressed, between the confusion of the university system, by Budget Act of 2020”.

Lorenzo Fioramonti, the minister of Education, University and Research, will talk about probably on Monday, the measure passed. Will keep the faith to the ads repeated of resignation? For now it has received the request to continue in the path advanced by the deputies, Five-Star hotel in the cultural committee and by the minister Pd, Francesco Boccia. Yesterday, at the time of conversion into law of Decree school, Fioramonti has written on Facebook: “The school, the university and the research must return to the centre of the political, also economic, of a Country. With the approval of the decree, we step forward to reduce the insecurity and jump-start the economy of knowledge”.

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