Milena Velbafull Sets

No 133 - e-mail of Oriental Studies

A bit 'late, perhaps, but I think it is always useful. Place the mail on the law 133 that I received from Eastern Studies.


We summarize the Decree Law 133 approved by the government August 6, 2008:

- reduction in funding of 20% within the next five years

- block in turnover to 20% every five retirements University
will make one assumption

- possibility for universities to become private foundations


What effects will bring?



- first reduction in funding for universities
will force universities to increase fees to
students.

The academic senates of several Italian universities provide
within the next five years having triple the tuition fees are not otherwise able
even cover staff salaries.
the state universities, however, have a ceiling limit on the fees imposed
(which has already been achieved in many universities) and in fact
will be forced to close its doors. their last resort is to become a private foundation
. But this does not mean being privately funded but
fact means selling the university to the highest bidder.


WHY SHOULD BECOME A PRIVATE FOUNDATION?
To be able to borrow, increase taxes students, who would have more
a legal limit and could increase dramatically, reaching even
€ 6000-7000 per year, on the model of American universities
.

addition, would be financed by private foundations, such as
pharmaceutical companies (maybe the only ones to allow poterselo
), and these institutions would eventually cut the legs at all
university and research sectors not covered in their
interests.

But most would be damaged heavily in the research,
no longer driven by pure interest in cultural and social, but
funds made available by the commission and direct the institution itself.


But not all universities have the 'luck' to become
foundations, and then survive. the Foundation is only
in those territories where there is a strong presence of companies and industries
ready to invest. universities far away from these areas as the majority of the University of Southern
threatened with immediate closure.


- Then, the lock will turn over in a few years
the closure of many degree programs to the evident inability to replace
university faculty and staff went
retirement. already a good part of teaching is covered by
researchers whose contract does not provide teaching.
in a few words they do for free. The block also takes away all hope in
researchers and graduate students and all those who dream of a future work
universities simply because they are not ever made!
may however be a precarious life!



official documents: Decree-Law 112/08 Article 16 Official Gazette
( http://www.camera.it/parlam/leggi/decreti/08112d.htm )