In quanto ex-studente di Ingegneria all'Università di Padova e in quanto ancora iscritto al forum di Ingegneria oggi mi è arrivata nella mail questo messaggio, scritto dal Preside della Facoltà. Cari studenti della Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università di Padova,
come Preside della Facoltà nella quale vi apprestate a intraprendere o a proseguire il percorso formativo che costituirà la base della vostra futura attività professionale, desidero informarvi sul particolare momento che sta vivendo la nostra Facoltà e, più in generale, l’intera Università italiana.
The Faculty of Engineering of Padua, one of the first in Italy with over 200 years of history behind it, currently provides 12 courses of Bachelor Degree, 17 Bachelor of Science degree and a five-year single cycle.
students were enrolled a total of over 11,000 and the number of new students entering each year is around 2500, growing steadily in recent years.
The attractiveness of the course has a variety of reasons: not least, good prospects for the labor market, in Italy and abroad.
teaching resources on which the faculty can count today are made of 116 Professors, 122 Professors Researchers associated and 140 (for a total of 378 units), which enabled the Department to prepare an educational large, skilled and well-articulated, despite the limitations in the amount of available resources.
fact, a significant part of teaching activities has so far been carried out by teachers as additional task over its institutional duties and the reason that prompted them to assume these commitments is certainly not pay more, given the meager compensation, and sometimes absent.
The situation has unfortunately changed a lot in recent months, primarily as a result of serious concerns and reservations expressed by some faculty content of the Bill 1905 'Rules for the organization of universities, academic staff and recruitment, as well as enabling Government to enhance the quality and efficiency of the university system. " This measure has already been approved by the Senate and is now before the House.
In particular, researchers indefinitely currently in service (and not only them) have expressed great concern that the introduction of the new figure-term research can greatly limit their opportunities for career advancement.
Consequently, 106 researchers of the Faculty, as a sign of protest declared their unwillingness to take ownership of teaching, because this is not provided by their institutional duties.
A strong indignation then spread among all teachers in part because of the recent budget package passed by Parliament: in fact, in the section on the University, the proposed measures will result in a penalty of a permanent nature, far superior to what is happening for other categories, with effects that will affect even the indemnities and pensions.
This is in addition to other measures implemented in recent years (the turn-over block, cutting Financing Fund Ordinary reduction ministry of research funds, slowing down of the selection procedures), resulting in a diminishment of the role of teachers and university education.
In this situation of extreme difficulty, about 90 Professors and Associates said they did not want to support teaching tasks in addition to those institutions, starting with the Academic who has just begun.
Another negative consequence of the recent fiscal consolidation and more general climate that has developed between Italian Universities, is the large number of early retirement, which makes it even more critical to maintain educational offerings.
Therefore, the Faculty of Engineering has regretfully had to acknowledge that, in Padua, as in many other locations, the Manifesto of Studies for the academic year 2010/11, at the time approved under the normal availability of lecturers, are no longer sustainable in terms provided for in its time.
thus adopting the primary objective to enable all degree courses, not to be less commitment on the one hand with the students and their families, the other with the productive world that has always welcomed the graduates Engineering in Padua, were planned a series of emergency operations, offering limited training of the current academic year based on:
a) increase the students in attendance, which has so far maintained at recommended levels by the law through the delivery of courses in parallel, having to reduce prices in parallel without sacrificing too much the quality of teaching, you next year some courses should be provided in audio / video connection.
b) abolition of tuition which is not essential to the training course, this choice has been particularly painful because it is these teachings have so far been a valuable enrichment offer technical and scientific education of the Faculty, as they often are an expression of research more advanced conducted at the Departments.
Instead it chose not to indiscriminately draw teachers from outside the academic world, but to maintain the standards of educational quality has always been adopted by the Faculty.
must stress however that the actions outlined above would not be sufficient to enable all degree courses: however, took note of the situation, a sense of responsibility and spirit of service a number of Professors and Researchers in the last days withdrew its unwillingness to additional teaching tasks, while maintaining its own total adhesion to the reasons for the protest. These choices must be given due importance, because they are often the result of intense inner struggle.
In conclusion, the educational offer that the faculty will be able to ensure the next academic year, while it will necessarily be less extensive than in the past, the other will remain essentially unchanged for now at least the level of quality and seriousness that has always distinguished.
However, it appears clear that the legislative measures recently adopted or being adopted, not only mean that the Faculty is now facing a situation of extreme difficulty, but are also leading to loss of the charge of enthusiasm that is the largest guarantee success for teaching and research in the years to come.
The Faculty would like to see introduced into the parliamentary level corrective action (such as those presented by the Ateneo Veneto to MPs at a recent meeting), giving dignity to further remove non-academic world, before the situation would be irretrievably compromised.
beginning of this academic year is not easy, however I wish you a good job in the classrooms and laboratories of the faculty and I take this opportunity to cordially greet and your families, and please extend to them this message.
Pierfrancesco Brunello
(Dean of Faculty di Ingegneria)
Lascio a voi qualsiasi commento.
0 comments:
Post a Comment