Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Throat,neck And Head Hurt

The public waste


La recente crisi finanziaria sta mettendo in luce le contraddizioni della pubblica administration instead of serving people is often a slave to compromise and patronage that cover both the human and financial resources. It is now time that the Confesercenti indicates that there are poor money management and cumbersome procedures in almost all areas of the state system. It is now obvious malfunctions that involve a number of areas, from planning of human resources to get to services, public works, as in the army in health, transport or in the school.


these behaviors that produce a single, central figure of the damage, what commonly goes by the name of "waste." A situation that humiliates the part of the country's most dynamic business, creates despair and resignation in the people, causing the flight of people abroad, the toughest and most competitive. The final result is produced in the loss of resources, economic, physical, emotional and human loss that prevents Italy to invest in young people, for our children, for all of us.


And it is precisely the need to capitalize on the future that reducing the budget available for education generates controversy and disagreement. Currently in Italy we have a forecast of expenditure on education by 4.7% of GDP, against 5.8% of the average of developed countries (OECD report - Education at a Glance 2008), with funding above the European average for elementary schools (ottimo!), but hopelessly inadequate for high school and especially for the university ($ 8,026 per year per student, when the OECD average is $ 11,512). A situation compounded by the fact that with the decrease of the available money in the last five years the subjects in Italian universities increased by 50%, reaching the figure of 180,000, with some of the teachings of meaning absolutely inexplicable!


huge "bubble" that subtracts university resources to pay for research faculty and facilities. Immobility caused even Italian professors of their length, the resulting blockage of competitions and maladministration in the hands of university professors who have brought 20 out of 94 universities on the brink of bankruptcy and many others with serious debt. Not only are recent reports of cheating on tests for admission to universities, honorary degrees awarded to patronage, without a title won by the candidate or publications, professors investigated by prosecutors in several Italian cities to have helped their families.


The end result is that the ranking of Shanghai Jiao Tong University puts the best Italian universities in 164 th place, behind that of Hawaii, that graduates Italian earns only 27% in more than a diploma (compared to 86% of what they earn in the U.S.) so that you lose the human and economic resources to maintain adequate other services such as the excellent performance of middle school and primary schools. And yes ... we have nothing left to scrape from the bottom of the barrel, if we are to maintain stable our rights if we are to maintain adequate our lifestyle we just have to take a clear position on who to date has allowed our country to institutionalize the public waste, to turn garbage into our values, our talents, our well-being.

Massimiliano Fanni Canelles

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