Old Spice Swagger Or After Hours

University as mushrooms, professors from nothing, and so on. Even the big cry

Want to know what is the current situation of Italian universities? read the article published today on Mario Pirani Repubblica.it "A thousand universities from easy chairs" ... an article full of interesting information, perhaps with a view to complete the Report episode of "graduation gift" .

my part that I find most interesting place of the long article by Pirani:

"The announcement of the strike in the universities against the budget has some justification but also falls within an old script that has always seen the unions when they wake up play in the economic aspects and guarantees of the careers of teachers ... "

"... I'll try to explain with some examples from their own starting and economic issues, primarily from wages that in the case of university teachers, in the wake of the judiciary and senior military officers, have so far enjoyed, unlike all other categories, a kind of automatic escalator, whereby the fees are annually aligned to inflation. "

" The budget this year provides, instead, a sum sufficient for only a small adjustment. It 'definitely unpleasant but must also resign to a share of the sacrifices imposed by the failure of the budget. More acceptable when the protest is directed against the schematic restrictive accounting that led to a general cut of 20% of interim costs (energy, maintenance, storage, etc.)..

"Discontent reasonable but not sufficient to justify the rants on killeraggio against the university and research reported by the trade union of the class. The same people who have not lifted a finger in front of the senseless proliferation of universities, passed in the last seven years from 41 to 80, and the equally improvident, he said, opening branch offices. It is thus allowed a multiplication perverse, mirroring a decline in the level of studies, the so-called liceizzazione ... "

Article after an overview of the easy chairs that are spreading in our universities, part of the reform university system, the one on teaching autonomy, to continue his merciless analysis of the current situation ...

"... art. 5 (Decree of 03/11/1999) provides the opportunity for students to acquire credits with the exam or other form of verification Profit . explain, for those who do not is aware that the old exam with the vote have since been substantially modified by the introduction of the credits, so that, together with the vote, with each exam, depending on the importance and study time alleged ... Universities can recognize as knowledge credits ... professional skills and certified ... and other knowledge and skills gained in training ... "

" So, since you can achieve credit without exams, universities have not found something better to inflate the inscriptions, which reach collective agreements with ministries, institutions of various kinds, associations, professional associations, etc.. These agreements with some kind of discount advertising to provide thousands of employees do not have a degree, the ability to easily achieve a degree, crediting an avalanche of claims, already at the time of registration, on the basis of the alleged activities turning point in the previous working life. "

" Particular discomfort among civil servants regularly graduates have raised the conventions cones ministries, accompanied by such an overvaluation of the credits to allow the candidates to obtain a degree after a few tests, chosen from the easiest ... "

Bella reconstruction of one of the most important areas of a country, that of scientific research and training of new recruits, instead of pursuing these ambitious targets, adapts to the surrounding reality and behaves from a mere economic agent.