NAPLES (ITALPRESS) – “It is not the abolition of the closed number, it is the abolition of entrance tests that will be replaced by a semester in which students will take three exams.” This was said by the Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, in Naples, at the Congress Center of the Federico II University in via Partenope, during Feuromed, the Euro-Mediterranean Festival of Economics. “So,” Bernini continued, “unlike an extremely expensive test, with an undergrowth of training that is uncertain and tends to be useless, we now offer students a characterizing training of three exams that they can spend on medicine or other subjects in the sciences and health. The number will be opened progressively, because on this I agree with those who offer critical insights on whether our system can hold up to total openness. The number will be opened progressively in the sense that each year we will open more, based on a capacity and resilience of the university that we will evaluate on the ground.”
THE MINISTER’S WORDS
And on the Endowment Fund: “I did not cut the Endowment Fund, which is the university’s main resource for 2025. I increased it. It has become,” Bernini continued, “9 billion 400 million, which is 336 million more than last year, which will also be an endowment dedicated to managing all the logistical criticalities that universities may have, precisely by indiscriminately opening the first semester to medicine and surgery, as well as dentistry and veterinary medicine, of course, but those are different numbers.
Thus, the minister argues that this is the time for collaboration. “I can’t think,” he concluded, “that the rectors or any critic of the reform prefers empty classrooms to full classrooms, prefers to vampirize families and students with tests, with trainings on useless tests, that prefers to force our students to go and study outside because they didn’t pass a completely random closed number, like a coin toss, maybe going to train much less well than in Italy, in Europe, in some decentralized seat of some Italian university, because this is a simulation of closed number, it’s not a real closed number. It’s just forcing students to train by spending much, much more. This we do not want to do.”
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