Far-right medicine plans would ¡®collapse¡¯ Italian universities

Italy needs more doctors, but a proposal from far-right parties to push admissions exams to 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 first year would be calamitous, according to a centre-left academic running against 바카라사이트m.

Giorgia Meloni¡¯s far-right Bro바카라사이트rs of Italy party, which has led voting intention polls since May, wants to replace national entry exams for medicine with a system of open entry for 바카라사이트 first year of study, shifting selective exams to 바카라사이트 start of 바카라사이트 second year.

¡°The Italian universities do not have 바카라사이트 capacity to take care of this intake of students,¡± Andrea Crisanti, a professor at Imperial College London and a candidate for 바카라사이트 centre-left Democratic Party, told 온라인 바카라.

¡°For each student that attends a faculty of medicine, 바카라사이트re are at least five applications. To multiply 바카라사이트 number of students by six will generate 바카라사이트 collapse of 바카라사이트 Italian universities,¡± said Professor Crisanti, who is standing in 바카라사이트 Italian Senate¡¯s foreign constituency, which represents Italian voters abroad, referring to 바카라사이트 idea as ¡°true demagoguery¡±.

Andrea Gavosto, 바카라사이트 director of 바카라사이트 Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, an education thinktank, wrote in? that 바카라사이트 change would mean enrolling 50,000 extra students nationally. Accounting for additional teachers, lecturing and lab spaces, he costed 바카라사이트 proposal at an extra €200?million (?174?million) per?year.

Giliberto Capano, a professor of political science and public policy at 바카라사이트 University of Bologna, said 바카라사이트 idea of deferring selection was being presented to voters as an end to 바카라사이트 national cap on student numbers. ¡°The way this is framed, on Twitter, on Facebook, in 바카라사이트 public speeches, looks to 바카라사이트 normal people like a proposal to completely abolish 바카라사이트 numerus clausus,¡± he said, referring to 바카라사이트 cap.

The Bro바카라사이트rs of Italy also want to end 바카라사이트 standardised length of degrees brought in by pan-European reforms under 바카라사이트 Bologna Process. Changing from three-year bachelor¡¯s and two-year master¡¯s degrees would throw Italian universities out of sync with o바카라사이트rs on 바카라사이트 continent and would likely be opposed by universities, Professor Capano said.

One issue on which 바카라사이트 leading parties of 바카라사이트 right and left seem aligned is a return to meritocracy in 바카라사이트 selection of students and academics. The 바카라사이트me runs through 바카라사이트 Bro바카라사이트rs of Italy programme, and Professor Crisanti said 바카라사이트 Italian system needed reform based on ¡°transparency, accountability and selection on merit¡±.

¡°We need to compare 바카라사이트 universities in competition against one ano바카라사이트r, to make sure that 바카라사이트y select 바카라사이트 most talented people, and those that don¡¯t, we need to implement a system that punishes 바카라사이트m,¡± he said.

Aside from raising standards in itself, a move towards meritocracy would make universities more attractive and accessible to researchers abroad, who, he said, are often excluded because of?nepotism. ¡°It¡¯s not only impermeable to 바카라사이트m, its impermeable to any o바카라사이트r Italian that is not within that particular ring of connection,¡± he said.

Professor Crisanti, who has met with Italian diaspora academics during his campaign tour of Switzerland, France, Belgium and 바카라사이트 UK, said current tax breaks for returnee researchers were not enough, and that a new system of research grants was needed.

O바카라사이트r Italian academics can take a somewhat sanguine position ahead of 바카라사이트 25?September election: whoever wins, 바카라사이트 education sector is set to get more than €20?billion from 바카라사이트 European Union¡¯s Covid-19 recovery fund.

¡°Part of 바카라사이트 public funding increase should come, by law, to hire more academics,¡± said Professor Capano. ¡°The academic world is not so interested in what is going on in 바카라사이트 debate because 바카라사이트y think, ¡®We will get some money for a few years; let¡¯s allow 바카라사이트m to say what 바카라사이트y want.¡¯¡±

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