ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The dialogue is always useful when it serves to strengthen the quality, transparency and effectiveness of the university system. This is why I welcome the invitation of the oppositions to open a debate on recruitment reform. We will shortly organize a structured meeting: the Italian university system is a common heritage and every intervention must be built with attention and responsibility”. The Minister of the University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, said this in a note on the reform of university recruitment. “The reform of the National Scientific Abilitation is part of a broader path of strengthening the system. In recent years we have significantly increased the funds allocated to the right to study with the increase in the number of scholarships and the audience of beneficiaries, to the universities as certified also by the Conference of Rectors in the opinion on the last Ordinary Fund of financing, which has reached the record figure of 9,4 billion and strengthened the resources for research with the three-year Plan, which introduces the ‘warning of bands’ to guarantee stability and certainty in the procedures. These interventions are accompanied by a concrete growth of the teaching staff, increased by 20.9% between 2018 and 2025, with a structural strengthening of the role of ordinary and associated professors. The aim of the Ministry is clear: making recruitment more effective, enhancing merit and offering greater opportunities for young researchers.”.
OPPOSIZIONI UNITE “BERNINI RIAPRA CONFRONTO SU CONTRORIFORMA CONCORSI”
“The will of the majority of government to proceed to a radical counter-reform of university recruitment procedures without any real comparison with the objections raised not only by opposition forces, but by a vast audience of experts, associations and scientific societies, is wrong and irresponsible. The public university system cannot be earthquaked, already flawed by the drastic cut of resources in real terms with respect to inflation and GDP, with an intervention that completely abolishes national scientific empowerment, delivers unlimited power to local competitions and creates a chaotic and safe passage phase, particularly penalizing for early young researchers.” So in a joint note Alfredo D’Actorre (PD), Antonio Caso (M5S), Elisabetta Piccolotti (AVS) and Davide Faraone (IV).
“We do not ask to introduce now the national competition, which is the prospective proposal on which the opposition forces converge, but at least not to eliminate any national form of verification on the quality of the scientific work of the candidates, slipping towards a total localization of the university competitions, with very serious effects for the transparency and effectiveness of the recruitment procedures – continue -. For this reason, at the time when the examination of such a measure loaded with problems and contraindications distributed in the Commission to the House, we appeal to the Minister Bernini and the majority forces to reopen a true confrontation, after this possibility was denied to the Senate. The Italian university system deserves new attention in terms of strategic investments and resources, not a counter-reform set of rush and fury at the end of the legislature and destined, in the absence of any sharing, to last very little”.
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