teachers are in every respect, but invisible and "unstructured" With the cuts will be the only alternative that will teach free
University, hundreds of the chair will remain precarious for a walk
LAURA MONTANARI
Hundreds of teachers will remain without a contract or a course will be "forced" to teach for free. Some already do the rest. They are insecure the chair, those who are squeezed for years by the Italian universities, must also give lessons to a hundred or two hundred students at a time, those students who are receiving, follow the thesis, attend the examination, give the votes. Teachers in all respects and yet invisible, "unstructured": their names are not found or between researchers or between members or between the ordinary. They have no representation in the faculty, nor in the governing bodies of universities. Are external, teaching low cost, usually fresh study, updated and qualified. Many have already had research grants and scholarships and are "parked" in teaching that there is more precarious because in this way can the colleges continue to provide courses at no cost or at ridiculously low fees. From their hand, some accept the same gallows these contracts to continue work in the academic world and hoping that sooner or later the universities reopened recruitment. The fact is that they are so many, even if many in this category of temporary workers and contractors will also include fellows "forced" to teach them also for free. The latest statistical survey of the ministry in 2008 and had about 38 thousand.
For years, universities have fished from this tank to create new courses and expand the training offer. Recently entered into force a regulation that requires that degree courses should be kept at least 50% of teachers structured (ie full, associate or researchers). With the close of the government financial resources to universities, teachers are the first to contract "redundancies" to be cut. But since there are many lessons that cover, the universities find a way out by offering free teaching or offering compensation and other narrow university to university, or from faculty to faculty: from zero to a thousand or two thousand euro a year.
"For someone who rejects the row is out of reach," says a professor at the Sapienza University. It 's so that the financial crisis, advance this unusual figure, this kind of "voluntary" the chair. "Even before there were universities that offer courses to pay zero," says a researcher from the University of Florence.
The phenomenon is further growth. In Pisa started the campaign "Free I do not work" which is an invitation to refuse to take courses without receiving any compensation. But unpaid courses meet at various universities: Naples, Palermo, Siena, Cassino, Pisa, Florence and Rome. "We are the true treasure of the universities - says Ilaria Agostini, the National Coordination precarious researchers CGIL - in the last six years I have signed 15 contracts with the University of Perugia, Geneva and Florence. This year I said enough, I'm not Florence asked me to get in the chair for free before I pay three euro gross per hour now zero, it is not even a contract of employment is a card where there are only duties and one law, one to have a unified inbox license plate. "
Not all refuse:" I accepted - explains Stefano Follesa, which teaches a course in furniture for 120 students at the University of Florence - I have a PhD scholarship, I do research, teach in a private school paid. Of course it's not right that the universities are asking us to teach for free, but in order to change this system must be lived in and fight to change the rules. "
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