The best and worst the week, with gloss catoniana.
Every Saturday you will find one or more articles in the national press during the week, in my opinion deserve - for better and for worse-to be made available to readers catoniani, with a brief comment.
This week:
Corriere della Sera - University, realism must - Francesco Giavazzi
The Republic Blog - Students on a Hot Tin Roof - Piergiorgio Odifreddi
To read the articles and comments , click below
Daily Telegraph - UNIVERSITA 'THE REALISM MUST
Francesco Giavazzi
"Of the value of graduates only judge is the customer, they are free to go, so if he likes it, the surveyor rather than the engineer, and free to do less of both if their services did not think themselves as valuable equal to the rates written in the decrees that only create monopolies and privileges. " (Luigi Einaudi, Freedom School, 1953).
Minister Gelmini has not the courage to Luigi Einaudi, did not propose to abolish the legal value of degrees. Neither his law drops the constraint that prevents universities to freely determine their own fees, even if the additional revenue would go entirely to fund scholarships, that is to "bring starting points "(Einaudi, lessons of social policy, 1944). Neither had the courage to separate medicine from other faculties to create institutions that are similar to the polytechnics for the faculty of engineering. Why this separation is strongly opposed by doctors who now dominate the number of universities and other faculties are able to pass on their costs.
But who, in the majority or the opposition, with the exception of the Radical Party, would support these three proposals today? The reality is that the law Gelmini is the best that can be achieved today given the culture of our political class.
The result, after all, is no small thing. The law abolishes the competitions, the first source of corruption of our universities. Create a new set of young teachers' trial for six years, "and confirmed only if teachers in those years to achieve positive results in teaching and research. Those who shout the scandal saying that this means reinforcing the "insecurity" of the university shows they did not know how they work in universities around the world. Worse put a tombstone on the future of many young people, whose place could be occupied for forty years by a person who has proved unsuitable for research.
"Do not make the wedding with dried figs, the criticism is more widespread. In 2007-08 the state funding to universities was 7 billion a year. Economy Minister had reduced, for 2011, one billion. Then, before the mobilization of students, researchers, public opinion and protest of the minister Gelmini Tremonti had to take a step back: the funds are 7.2 billion in 2010, 6.9 in 2011, the same as three years ago . "The law betrays the young people who are currently employed in the university, not giving them any prospects." Unfortunately, it gives too much. For every ten new jobs that will open, only two are reserved to young researchers in the university have not yet had the good fortune to come: the rest are destined for promotion of those already there.
The law renews the governance of universities: self-limiting professors providing for the presence of non-academic on the boards (though the minister has had the strength to accentuate the "neutrality" by preventing the rector of the board presiding at the same time, the university and its board of directors ). For the first time, provides that public funds to universities to be adjusted according to the results.
Evaluation is the only way to avoid wasting resources, so we can go back to the world and give students a better education. For this reason ANVUR, the Agency for the evaluation of the universities, is the real pivot of reform. Unfortunately, the minister Mussi, who in the previous government created it, wrote a regulation inconsistent with the law. It was rejected by the State Council and had to be rewritten from scratch with the result that the ANVUR only part time.
The law, however, need not be approved at any cost. The articles still to be discussed are opposed (by the opposition, but also by the League) amendments that the distortion. A bizarre, UDC, repealing the Board of Trustees for the research, introduced at the request of the Group in 2003, the thirty Italian researchers whose work has received the highest number of citations in the world. Last week Fli proposed that the 18 million that the budget law for the increase in salary for those already in the university is not reserved for young people, but extended to all. So those 18 million would have been translated into twenty Euros per month more for everyone, instead of forty per month for young people. Fortunately, that amendment is not passed. But others are lurking, including some that introduce various types of operation of law. If passed, better to withdraw the law.
The PD has announced that it would vote against. Bersani really think that if he wins the elections to be able to pass a better law? Better perhaps to the university who had the good fortune of being able to enter. I doubt even for those who are often out in the search results has been the most significant of those inside. Francesco Giavazzi
There are many ways of dealing with a topic. One is Francesco Giavazzi, an economics professor and columnist for the Courier. Convinced liberal, not a fan of the Berlusconi government, but here he exhibits his considerations in favor of reform. Another way is as follows, Piergiorgio Odifreddi.
Every Saturday you will find one or more articles in the national press during the week, in my opinion deserve - for better and for worse-to be made available to readers catoniani, with a brief comment.
This week:
Corriere della Sera - University, realism must - Francesco Giavazzi
The Republic Blog - Students on a Hot Tin Roof - Piergiorgio Odifreddi
To read the articles and comments , click below
Daily Telegraph - UNIVERSITA 'THE REALISM MUST
Francesco Giavazzi
"Of the value of graduates only judge is the customer, they are free to go, so if he likes it, the surveyor rather than the engineer, and free to do less of both if their services did not think themselves as valuable equal to the rates written in the decrees that only create monopolies and privileges. " (Luigi Einaudi, Freedom School, 1953).
Minister Gelmini has not the courage to Luigi Einaudi, did not propose to abolish the legal value of degrees. Neither his law drops the constraint that prevents universities to freely determine their own fees, even if the additional revenue would go entirely to fund scholarships, that is to "bring starting points "(Einaudi, lessons of social policy, 1944). Neither had the courage to separate medicine from other faculties to create institutions that are similar to the polytechnics for the faculty of engineering. Why this separation is strongly opposed by doctors who now dominate the number of universities and other faculties are able to pass on their costs.
But who, in the majority or the opposition, with the exception of the Radical Party, would support these three proposals today? The reality is that the law Gelmini is the best that can be achieved today given the culture of our political class.
The result, after all, is no small thing. The law abolishes the competitions, the first source of corruption of our universities. Create a new set of young teachers' trial for six years, "and confirmed only if teachers in those years to achieve positive results in teaching and research. Those who shout the scandal saying that this means reinforcing the "insecurity" of the university shows they did not know how they work in universities around the world. Worse put a tombstone on the future of many young people, whose place could be occupied for forty years by a person who has proved unsuitable for research.
"Do not make the wedding with dried figs, the criticism is more widespread. In 2007-08 the state funding to universities was 7 billion a year. Economy Minister had reduced, for 2011, one billion. Then, before the mobilization of students, researchers, public opinion and protest of the minister Gelmini Tremonti had to take a step back: the funds are 7.2 billion in 2010, 6.9 in 2011, the same as three years ago . "The law betrays the young people who are currently employed in the university, not giving them any prospects." Unfortunately, it gives too much. For every ten new jobs that will open, only two are reserved to young researchers in the university have not yet had the good fortune to come: the rest are destined for promotion of those already there.
The law renews the governance of universities: self-limiting professors providing for the presence of non-academic on the boards (though the minister has had the strength to accentuate the "neutrality" by preventing the rector of the board presiding at the same time, the university and its board of directors ). For the first time, provides that public funds to universities to be adjusted according to the results.
Evaluation is the only way to avoid wasting resources, so we can go back to the world and give students a better education. For this reason ANVUR, the Agency for the evaluation of the universities, is the real pivot of reform. Unfortunately, the minister Mussi, who in the previous government created it, wrote a regulation inconsistent with the law. It was rejected by the State Council and had to be rewritten from scratch with the result that the ANVUR only part time.
The law, however, need not be approved at any cost. The articles still to be discussed are opposed (by the opposition, but also by the League) amendments that the distortion. A bizarre, UDC, repealing the Board of Trustees for the research, introduced at the request of the Group in 2003, the thirty Italian researchers whose work has received the highest number of citations in the world. Last week Fli proposed that the 18 million that the budget law for the increase in salary for those already in the university is not reserved for young people, but extended to all. So those 18 million would have been translated into twenty Euros per month more for everyone, instead of forty per month for young people. Fortunately, that amendment is not passed. But others are lurking, including some that introduce various types of operation of law. If passed, better to withdraw the law.
The PD has announced that it would vote against. Bersani really think that if he wins the elections to be able to pass a better law? Better perhaps to the university who had the good fortune of being able to enter. I doubt even for those who are often out in the search results has been the most significant of those inside. Francesco Giavazzi
There are many ways of dealing with a topic. One is Francesco Giavazzi, an economics professor and columnist for the Courier. Convinced liberal, not a fan of the Berlusconi government, but here he exhibits his considerations in favor of reform. Another way is as follows, Piergiorgio Odifreddi.
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THE REPUBLIC BLOG - Students on a Hot Tin Roof
Piergiorgio Odifreddi
The student protest ignites Italy, and brings us back to the glory years with the memory of '68. Ben are assemblies, processions, banners, occupations, protests against a reform that, by the mere fact that it was proposed by a minister as the Gelmini, can hardly be taken seriously.
In fact, I am surprised that the Gelmini has been seriously accepted as a minister, and that students and professors do not have immediately refused to recognize the role that his curriculum vitae (with and without the prefix) had won. One need not be Sherlock Holmes to figure out a rookie than thirty-five years old, graduated in law at Brescia and empowered to Reggio Calabria, discouraged by a unanimous vote and as chairman of the bipartisan council of Desenzano del Garda 'obvious failure' with a ' parliamentary experience of only two years, could be reached only to the minister for reasons unmentionable.
It 's a sign of the times and places, that is Italy today, which the Head of State not only has accepted the appointment of the Gelmini, as well as his colleague Carfagna, but after having dealt with these two horses with Caligula than "institutional", sometimes even praising the work, and thereby legitimizing the illegitimate. Students and teachers had no formal obligations, however, and if they had promptly refused to recognize the Gelmini could avoid having to belatedly express his anti-reform.
As I have gained a "you sucks" on live TV by the Minister La Russa had said these things to Oct. 1 2009 in Eastenders, I can not be suspected of conniving with the "lady-horse," if today manifest some unease at a protest in assisting shared by students and professors, and I suspect that the first did not understand that the state prevailing in the Italian university depends in large part by the latter.
seems to me that students should ask loudly for a reform that cutting off the heads of the barons. Cattedrattici forcing a retirement age compared to that of other workers. Solve some of the financial problems of the university to reallocate their positions to young researchers. Forcing professors to remain subject to periodic reviews and draconian efficiency and productivity. And rivedesse retroactively criteria with which the professors have come to be, possibly beaming the many who have been promoted to pure 'demerit': that is, for nepotism or favoritism.
imagine that any reform of the university can succeed without changing radically the balance of power, is analogous to a claim for redress of a basket of apples without wanting to remove the brands. Or hope to be able to heal a body with cancer without wanting to remove it, with a scalpel or with shock therapy.
Revolutions are not made in a painless and ecumenical events that unite the oppressed and the oppressors are suspect Manipulation of the first part of the latter. Instead of welcoming barons and politicians on the roofs and monuments from which arise, students should Start pouring to tear it down, along with the Gelmini. In a metaphorical way, of course, but no less real and effective
Piergiorgio Odifreddi is one of our less intellectual authority. Often his arguments seem result of the controversy imagination of a teenager who delights of his inventions with naive compensated by the ardor of youth (by the way, has sixty Odifreddi).
It took me a while 'to understand what he meant by the phrase, referring to the Gelmini "(...) the role that his curriculum vitae (with and without the prefix) had won .
Then I tried to immerse myself in the humor of a grinning little boy giving a classmate at the elbow, and I got there: culum! "What her ass had won."
short, Gelmini Odifreddi refers to as one that has found its way exclusively through its rear. What a fine, Oscar Wilde will stand writhing with envy. Chapeau.
fact, immediately after Odifreddi, who perhaps think they are being too allusive and imprecise, prices rise: the Gelmini can only be a minister by virtue of "unmentionable reasons " . Ie sex.
This is the level of arguments Piergiorgio Odifreddi. What
, made a dutiful homage to the '68 (I had no doubts), it is a wonder that the President of the Republic has not refused to appoint Minister Mariastella Gelmini (had to sing instead, Napolitano, to meet Odifreddi? Had to say maybe: " No, not the appointed minister because I heard some rumors about him ... "). Not to mention the Carfagna.
Piergiorgio Odifreddi
The student protest ignites Italy, and brings us back to the glory years with the memory of '68. Ben are assemblies, processions, banners, occupations, protests against a reform that, by the mere fact that it was proposed by a minister as the Gelmini, can hardly be taken seriously.
In fact, I am surprised that the Gelmini has been seriously accepted as a minister, and that students and professors do not have immediately refused to recognize the role that his curriculum vitae (with and without the prefix) had won. One need not be Sherlock Holmes to figure out a rookie than thirty-five years old, graduated in law at Brescia and empowered to Reggio Calabria, discouraged by a unanimous vote and as chairman of the bipartisan council of Desenzano del Garda 'obvious failure' with a ' parliamentary experience of only two years, could be reached only to the minister for reasons unmentionable.
It 's a sign of the times and places, that is Italy today, which the Head of State not only has accepted the appointment of the Gelmini, as well as his colleague Carfagna, but after having dealt with these two horses with Caligula than "institutional", sometimes even praising the work, and thereby legitimizing the illegitimate. Students and teachers had no formal obligations, however, and if they had promptly refused to recognize the Gelmini could avoid having to belatedly express his anti-reform.
As I have gained a "you sucks" on live TV by the Minister La Russa had said these things to Oct. 1 2009 in Eastenders, I can not be suspected of conniving with the "lady-horse," if today manifest some unease at a protest in assisting shared by students and professors, and I suspect that the first did not understand that the state prevailing in the Italian university depends in large part by the latter.
seems to me that students should ask loudly for a reform that cutting off the heads of the barons. Cattedrattici forcing a retirement age compared to that of other workers. Solve some of the financial problems of the university to reallocate their positions to young researchers. Forcing professors to remain subject to periodic reviews and draconian efficiency and productivity. And rivedesse retroactively criteria with which the professors have come to be, possibly beaming the many who have been promoted to pure 'demerit': that is, for nepotism or favoritism.
imagine that any reform of the university can succeed without changing radically the balance of power, is analogous to a claim for redress of a basket of apples without wanting to remove the brands. Or hope to be able to heal a body with cancer without wanting to remove it, with a scalpel or with shock therapy.
Revolutions are not made in a painless and ecumenical events that unite the oppressed and the oppressors are suspect Manipulation of the first part of the latter. Instead of welcoming barons and politicians on the roofs and monuments from which arise, students should Start pouring to tear it down, along with the Gelmini. In a metaphorical way, of course, but no less real and effective
Piergiorgio Odifreddi is one of our less intellectual authority. Often his arguments seem result of the controversy imagination of a teenager who delights of his inventions with naive compensated by the ardor of youth (by the way, has sixty Odifreddi).
It took me a while 'to understand what he meant by the phrase, referring to the Gelmini "(...) the role that his curriculum vitae (with and without the prefix) had won .
Then I tried to immerse myself in the humor of a grinning little boy giving a classmate at the elbow, and I got there: culum! "What her ass had won."
short, Gelmini Odifreddi refers to as one that has found its way exclusively through its rear. What a fine, Oscar Wilde will stand writhing with envy. Chapeau.
fact, immediately after Odifreddi, who perhaps think they are being too allusive and imprecise, prices rise: the Gelmini can only be a minister by virtue of "unmentionable reasons " . Ie sex.
This is the level of arguments Piergiorgio Odifreddi. What
, made a dutiful homage to the '68 (I had no doubts), it is a wonder that the President of the Republic has not refused to appoint Minister Mariastella Gelmini (had to sing instead, Napolitano, to meet Odifreddi? Had to say maybe: " No, not the appointed minister because I heard some rumors about him ... "). Not to mention the Carfagna.
And outrage on outrage, President of the Republic, after being appointed minister, has even treated as if they were really ministers, with institutional respect! So maybe instead of apostrophes: "I have named, and steps, but you are and stay two sciacquette."
After this brief display of higher learning institutions, Odifreddi is forced to write something about it. Take the second part of his article.
would mean fever and horns of this reform, given birth by a minister so infamous (well, so defamed). But he can not. It 's true, it was just hard on her, because it was good and right because Odifreddi still remains a gentleman, but on its reform can not say nothin' left '.
fact, can not help but notice that something does not come back, if against a reform of university students protest together professors.
can not get to talk without prejudice on the merits of the reform, as does Giavazzi (see article above). No, not that.
But now he has escaped the senses something sensible, but left open a question that leads us to reflect on the meaning of many protests suspicious.
It 's too late to rimangiarselo, and Professor Odifreddi that goes addiritttura en passant to criticize politicians who climbed on the roofs, you just have to shoot the last round on the usual Gelmini, hoping that, with them, students smash the minister from the rooftops. If not for reform, perhaps because - as he would say - unmentionable.
After this brief display of higher learning institutions, Odifreddi is forced to write something about it. Take the second part of his article.
would mean fever and horns of this reform, given birth by a minister so infamous (well, so defamed). But he can not. It 's true, it was just hard on her, because it was good and right because Odifreddi still remains a gentleman, but on its reform can not say nothin' left '.
fact, can not help but notice that something does not come back, if against a reform of university students protest together professors.
can not get to talk without prejudice on the merits of the reform, as does Giavazzi (see article above). No, not that.
But now he has escaped the senses something sensible, but left open a question that leads us to reflect on the meaning of many protests suspicious.
It 's too late to rimangiarselo, and Professor Odifreddi that goes addiritttura en passant to criticize politicians who climbed on the roofs, you just have to shoot the last round on the usual Gelmini, hoping that, with them, students smash the minister from the rooftops. If not for reform, perhaps because - as he would say - unmentionable.
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