In lumina reflectoarelor Studioului BZI LIVE a fost programata o editie extrem de interesanta cu profesorul care pregateste studentii - campioni internationali la Matematica
Joi, 28 martie 2019, de la ora 15.00 in lumina reflectoarelor Studioului BZI LIVE a fost programata o noua editie-dialog extrem de interesanta si de actualitate pe zona academica • Invitat a fost lect. univ. dr. Marcel Roman coordonatorul Departamentului de Matematica si Informatica de la Universitatea Tehnica - TUIASI Gheorghe Asachi din Iasi • Alaturi de acesta au fost abordate teme ce au avut in prim plan: pregatirea studentilor pentru competitii nationale si internationale in zona stiintelor exacte, proiecte pe care le deruleaza, realitati din spatiul educational romanesc, medaliile obtinute de tinerii pe care-i coordoneaza la intreceri prestigioase pe plan mondial • Emisiunea completa cu acesta poate fi urmarita AICI:
Pe 28 martie 2019, de la ora 15.00 in lumina reflectoarelor Studioului BZI LIVE a fost programata o noua editie-dialog extrem de interesanta si de actualitate pe zona academica. Invitat a fost lect. univ. dr. Marcel Roman coordonatorul Departamentului de Matematica si Informatica de la Universitatea Tehnica (TUIASI) Gheorghe Asachi din Iasi. Alaturi de acesta au fost abordate teme ce au avut in prim plan: pregatirea studentilor pentru competitii nationale si internationale in zona stiintelor exacte, proiecte pe care le deruleaza, realitati din spatiul educational romanesc, medaliile obtinute de tinerii pe care-i coordoneaza la intreceri prestigioase pe plan mondial. De reamintit ca, studentii de la Universitatea Tehnica au fost, si de data aceasta, printre laureatii Concursului International de Matematica SEEMOUS 2019, derulat in Bulgaria. Inca o data se confirma valoare educatiei iesene la nivel european.
Concret, cei sase studenti care au participat din partea Politehnicii s-au intors acasa cu medalii. Tinerii au reusit sa obtina doua medalii de argint si patru de bronz. Toti provin de la Facultatea de Automatica si Calculatoare: Cristian Grecu si Vlad Corduneanu au luat medalia de argint, in timp ce bronzul a fost obtinut de Vlad Batalan, Iulian Rusu, Ioan Stanciu si Alexandru Berigoi. "Anul acesta subiectele au avut un grad de dificultate foarte ridicat, mai ridicat decat la alte editii, dar este pentru prima data cand echipa Politehnicii ia medalii cu toti participantii. Este o generatie foarte buna si avem sperante foarte mari si pentru anul viitor, fiindca au dreptul sa mai participe si la editia urmatoare. Sunt rezultate imbucuratoare, se remarca un trend ascendent", a declarat lect. univ. dr. Marcel Roman, directorul Departamentului de Matematica si Informatica de la TUIASI.
Acesta a precizat ca selectia celor sase membri ai echipei de matematica s-a facut din peste o suta de studenti care s-au inscris initial la Centrul de Pregatire de Performanta in Matematica de la Politehnica ieseana.La centrul respectiv se pregatesc in permanenta studentii care reprezinta Universitatea la competitiile nationale si internationale, sub indrumarea profesorilor Ariadna Pletea, Marian Pantiruc, Radu Strugariu si Marcel Roman. South Eastern European Mathematical Competition for University Students with International Participation (SEEMOUS) este un concurs cu participare internationala organizat de Societatea Matematica din Sud-Estul Europei si care se adreseaza studentilor din primii doi ani de studiu. Anul acesta a avut loc cea de-a XIII-a editie, la care au participat, în total, 83 de concurenti de la 21 de universitati din România, Bulgaria, Grecia, Macedonia si Turkmenistan. Trei dintre editiile anterioare au avut loc în România: în 2011 competitia a fost organizata de Universitatea din Bucuresti iar în 2014 si 2018 de Universitatea Tehnica Gheorghe Asachi din Iasi. Emisiunea completa cu acesta poate fi urmarita AICI:
Publicație :Bună Ziua Iași
Centenarul Arhivei pentru Stiinta si Reforma Sociala 1 aprilie 1919 – 1 aprilie 2019
Luni, 1 aprilie 2019, incepand cu ora 11.00, Primaria Municipiului Iasiva organiza, in Sala „B. P. Hasdeu” a Bibliotecii Centrale Universitare „Mihai Eminescu”, evenimentul intitulat „Centenarul Arhivei pentru Stiinta si Reforma Sociala (1 aprilie 1919 – 1 aprilie 2019)”, in cadrul caruia se va desfasura colocviul „Inceputul sociologiei romanesti si mostenirea lui Dimitrie Gusti”.
Programul colocviului:
11.00 – 11.30 Deschiderea colocviului.
Alocutiuni sustinute de conf. univ. dr. Ioan Milica, Directorul BCU „Mihai Eminescu” si Mihai Chirica, Primarul Municipiului Iasi. Vor mai lua cuvantul prof. univ. dr. Zoltán Rostás, Coordonatorul „Cooperativei Gusti”, Universitatea din Bucuresti, prof. univ. dr. Sorin Bocancea, rectorul Universitatii „Petre Andrei” din Iasi si
prof. univ. dr. Daniel Sandru, Coordonatorul Programului Centenar al Primariei Municipiului Iasi
11.30 – 14.00 Comunicari. Panel I
Moderator: prof. univ. dr. Doru Tompea
Zoltán Rostás (Universitatea din Bucuresti): „Demararea si metamorfozele unei reviste interbelice. Arhiva pentru Stiinta si Reforma Sociala, 1919-1943”;
Ovidiu Buruiana (Universitatea „Al. I. Cuza” din Iasi): „Activitatea lui Dimitrie Gusti ca profesor la Universitatea din Iasi”;
Dana Costin (Universitatea „Al. I. Cuza” din Iasi): „Contextul stiintific si intelectual al aparitiei periodicului Arhiva pentru Stiinta si Reforma Sociala (1919-1924)”;
Theodora-Eliza Vacarescu (cercetator independent, Bucuresti): „Contributiile miscarilor femeilor la aparitia Asociatiei pentru Studiul si Reforma Sociala si contributiile aparitiei asociatiei la miscarile femeilor”;
Irina Nastasa-Matei (Universitatea din Bucuresti): „Surse germane ale sociologiei romanesti interbelice”.
14.15 – 16.45 Comunicari. Panel II
Moderator: prof. univ. dr. Zoltán Rostás
Victor Rizescu (Universitatea din Bucuresti): „Pluralismul juridic si socialismul juridic: doua repere ale reformei sociale in Romania interbelica”;
Liviu Antonesei (Universitatea „Al. I. Cuza” din Iasi): „Dancus (1919-2019)”;
Catalin Botosineanu (Arhivele Nationale ale Romaniei, Filiala Iasi): „Implicarea lui Dimitrie Gusti in recrutarile profesorilor Facultatii de Litere si Filosofie din Iasi in perioada interbelica”;
Antonio Momoc (Universitatea din Bucuresti): „Reflectii despre «razboaiele juste». Conceptia lui Dimitrie Gusti despre razboi”;
Ionut Butoi (Universitatea din Bucuresti): „Natura si cultura in sociologia gustiana”.
17.00 – 17.45 Moment „Cooperativa Gusti”. Lansarea volumelor:
Social Sciences in the ”Other Europe” since 1945, Edited by Adela Hincu and Victor Karady, Pasts. Inc. Central European University, Budapesta, 2018;
Bulevardele vietii, Sanda Golopentia, Editura Spandugino, 2018;
Personajele acestea de a doua mana, antologie de Theodora-Eliza Vacarescu, Editura Eikon, 2018;
Despre migratiune si emigratie la romani, antologie de Zoltán Rostás si Florentina Tone, Editura Paideia, 2018;
Cultura si propaganda. Institutul Roman din Berlin (1941-1944), Irina Matei si Lucian Nastasa-Kovács, Editura Mega, 2018;
Volumele vor fi prezentate de prof. univ. dr. Mihai-Dinu Gheorghiu (Universitatea „Al.I. Cuza” din Iasi).
17.45 – 18.00 Lansarea editiei revistei de stiinte politice Polis, dedicata Centenarului Arhivei pentru Stiinta si Reforma Sociala, vol. VII, nr. 1 (23), serie noua, decembrie 2018 – februarie 2019;
Publicatia va fi prezentata de lect. univ. dr. Georgeta Condur (Universitatea „Petre Andrei” din Iasi).
Publicație :Bună Ziua Iași
Women earn 50p for £1 made by men at some multi-academy trusts
Trusts say gender pay gap is due to high number of women among lowest earners
Women working in schools run by multi-academy trusts experience some of the most stark gender pay gaps in the UK, Guardian analysis has found.
Of the companies to have filed figures on their gender pay gaps to date, almost half of the worst 50 are multi-academy trusts (MATs). All of the 23 trusts had gaps greater than 50%, meaning on average women working in the schools were paid 50p for every £1 earned by a man.
The figures come as part of mandatory gender pay reporting. Since 2017, companies with more than 250 employees are required to report their gender pay gap. The deadline for companies to report is 4 April and 4,350 companies out of an expected 10,000 had reported by 27 March.
Nearly four in five MATs that have reported so far have a median pay gap worse than the national average of 17.9%. The median gap is the difference between the employee in the middle of the range of male wages and the middle employee in the range of female wages. Multi-academy trusts said the figures were a result of high numbers of women among their lowest earners, including teaching assistants and administrative roles, rather than the trust’s failure to promote women to the most senior positions.
Wimborne Academy Trust, which runs 11 schools in the south-west, reported a median gap of 68%, the biggest of any MAT. More than half of its leadership staff are women, including the chief executive, and three-quarters of the trust’s teachers are female.
In a statement to the Guardian, the trust said it was one of relatively few large MATs made up exclusively of first and middle schools. “Such schools usually have more support staff than teachers,” it said. “Women currently fulfil most of the support roles in the schools and a majority of our female employees are not teachers. Consequently the median paid woman in the trust is a teaching assistant.”
“Only 13% of the trust’s staff are male, and the majority of them are teachers. Therefore the median paid man in the trust is a teacher. The difference in pay between a teacher and teaching assistant accounts for the reported pay gap.”
Women tend to dominate the lowest paid jobs in MATs with a high gender pay gap. In the four MATs with the highest gaps, women made up at least nine in ten of the lowest paid. Just one of the 289 trusts to have reported so far had a 50:50 gender split among its lowest earners.
The National Education Union (NEU) said that, while some of the trusts with the highest median gender pay gaps had female CEOs, their median gender pay gaps would not fall until the gap between the salaries paid to the most senior staff and teacher and support staff was reduced.
MATs have been widely criticised for high executive pay. Analysis by Schools Week found that 23 trusts paid their chief executives more than £200,000 last year. Dan Moynihan, CEO of the 43-school Harris Federation, topped the list with a salary of £440,000. Last month academies minister Theodore Agnew wrote to chairs of academy trust boards asking them rein in CEO pay.
Rainham Mark Education Trust, which runs three schools in Kent, has a median hourly pay gap of 66%. Terry Whittaker, chair of the board of trustees at RMET, said that while at first glance the trust’s gender pay gap looked alarming, there were “proper and positive reasons for the apparent anomaly”.
“The trust currently comprises only three schools, one large secondary and two primary schools. The gender pay report is based on 252 employees of which 135 are support staff roles and 117 are teaching posts,” he said.
“Of our support staff 94% are part-time roles which traditionally have attracted more female employees looking for flexible, term-time roles with limited hours.”
Whittaker said that among teaching staff, women’s median hourly rate was 5% lower as a percentage of men’s pay, while among support staff it was 31% lower. He said that two of their three headteachers were female. “It would be an injustice to portray the trust as gender biased, in fact it would be inaccurate,” he said.
Kevin Courtney, the joint general secretary of the NEU, said the gender pay gap in many academy trusts was startling. “The NEU believes that the gender pay gap for teachers in academies is wider than for those in local authority schools,” he said.
“The Department for Education’s statistics show that while men and women classroom teachers alike are paid less in academies than in local authority schools, the loss is greater for women than men.”
He added that, while appointing women to senior positions in multi-academy trusts reduced the mean gender pay gap, the median gap would not go down until the gap between chief executive salaries and teacher and support staff salaries was reduced.
Jon Richards, the head of education at Unison, said women in lower paid jobs were often given tasks previously done by higher paid colleagues lost due to funding cuts. “Schools couldn’t function without support staff,” he said. “Academy chains must tackle the problem of low pay and as a society we must start valuing the support roles women tend to do if those gaps are ever to close.”
A government spokesperson said they were supporting schools to boost women’s progression in the workplace. “We have invested in a coaching and development programme for aspiring female teachers, in addition to £2m in equality and diversity hubs to share expertise and provide professional development for female teachers, as well as other teachers with protected characteristics,” they said.
Publicație : The Guardian
UK success in latest ERC round spotlights Brexit risks
Country wins biggest share of advanced grants, but could soon lose access to fund
The importance of UK participation in the European Research Council has been underlined after the country took the biggest share of awards in the latest funding round.
Researchers based in the UK secured 47 of the 222 advanced grants being handed out by the ERC, equivalent to more than one in five, the council said on 28 March. German-based researchers secured 32 of the grants, which are typically worth up to €2.5 million (£2.1 million), while academics in France won 31 and scholars in the Netherlands got 23.
Around one in three of the UK awards went to European nationals who have moved to the country.
However, the funding could be jeopardised in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Without an association agreement to the European Union’s next research funding programme, ERC grantees will no longer be able to work full-time in the UK.
The UK is considering creating a domestic alternative to the ERC, which would be open to researchers from around the world, but sector leaders have warned that this would struggle to rival the prestige of the ERC.
In total, the ERC allocated €540 million to 222 researchers in the latest round of advanced grant awards. There were 2,052 submitted proposals, giving a success rate of 10.8 per cent.
Only 20 per cent of grants were awarded to women, but this exceeded the proportion of applicants who were female (19 per cent).
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, the president of the ERC, said that the successful awardees will “pursue their best ideas and are in an excellent position to trigger breakthroughs and major scientific advances”.
“Had the ERC budget been higher, more brilliant ideas could have been supported in Europe. I hope that the next EU framework programme for research, Horizon Europe, will make this possible. There is certainly more room at the top”, he said.
The ERC said that the awards would lead to the creation of an estimated 2,000 jobs for postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and other staff.
Publicație : The Times
European copyright directive ‘opens door to mass digitalisation’
Librarians welcome new European rules on copyright, which also secures right for researchers to mine text and data
Librarians believe that a new copyright directive passed by the European Parliament could open the door to the mass digitalisation of books, films and audio recordings, potentially meaning fewer trips to distant libraries for scholars and students who need access to obscure material.
After years of debate and protest, MEPs passed the European Union’s new copyright directive on 26 March, a move that could have significant implications for libraries and universities.
The directive opens up “exciting new possibilities for libraries”, said Stephen Wyber, manager of policy and advocacy at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
It should make it easier for libraries to digitalise documents that are still in copyright but are not commercially available. These could include radio broadcasts, out-of-print books and unpublished oral histories, said Ben White, a member of the legal working group at the Association of European Research Libraries.
It could help to make available “huge amounts of unpublished material with a big research value”, he said.
At the moment, libraries must seek permission to digitalise these documents one by one, painstakingly tracking down the copyright owner for each, he explained, meaning that digitalisation is not possible at scale.
The new directive, however, should make it possible for libraries to gain digitalisation rights in bulk from bodies that look after copyright – rather like how a cafe buys the rights to play a selection of songs rather than striking a separate licensing deal with each artist. The change is “really transformative and really exciting”, Mr White said.
It could spare students or researchers long trips to distant libraries just to view a document that does not exist elsewhere, said Mr Wyber.
The directive, he added, should also stop publishers placing “digital locks” on their material to prevent researchers from conducting text and data mining – sifting through mountains of material to find patterns with the aid of a computer, a technique considered vital to fields such as artificial intelligence. The change “will be a real boost for European universities and European libraries”, said Mr Wyber, and means that the EU will have “caught up a lot of ground” in relation to the rest of the world.
Universities and libraries have managed to carve out exemptions to the directive’s most controversial proposals, which will require online platforms such as YouTube to pre-screen uploaded material – like music or films – to ensure that it is not copyrighted, and will oblige them to pay newspapers for repeating anything other than short snippets of their articles.
There had been fears that these rules could place a heavy burden of checking on university repositories and force researchers to pay to quote from news articles in their work, but academic lobbying bodies now think these risks have been ironed out. But universities “cannot declare victory” until they see how the directive is actually implemented, said Mr Wyber.
The directive must still be approved by member states in April, although Mr Wyber expects it to be waved through. It also needs to be transposed into national law, meaning that the new rules set out by the directive will still not come into force for a “few years”, and could be open to interpretative tweaks by national governments, he explained.
But he and Mr White said it was unclear whether the UK would implement the directive after Brexit.
Publicație : The Times
Protest professor says political meddling ‘suicidal’ for research
Indian scholar explains why she thinks guidelines on ensuring PhDs focus on ‘national priorities’ are dangerous and wrong
An Indian academic who resigned over a state-led order calling for PhD students to focus only “national priorities” has claimed that such interference will be “suicidal” for the country’s research.
Meena Pillai quit the board of studies of Central University of Kerala after it asked departments to admit PhD candidates only if they chose topics “in accordance with the national priorities” and also warned against pursuing “irrelevant” research. In addition, doctoral candidates would be required to select from a “shelf of project[s]…considering national priorities” that had been compiled by departments, the advice says.
The university’s advice was prompted by a circular sent by India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development on 13 March. CUK is the first institution to respond to the new guidance, which follows moves to ban academics at some of India’s central universities from criticising the government.
Professor Pillai’s intervention has been dismissed by the university as a “political stunt” associated with upcoming state elections, but several leading politicians have backed her stance. India’s opposition party leader, Rahul Gandhi – heir to the country’s most revered political dynasty, used her resignation to accuse the administration of Narendra Modi of “tell[ing] the intellectuals of the country how they should do their work”.
Speaking to Times Higher Education, Professor Pillai, who is director of CUK’s Centre for Cultural Studies, said she had stepped down because it was “extremely problematic” to involve “jingoistic nationalism” in university research.
“This is a country where you can be branded anti-national because of the food you eat given the attitudes towards beef, so making nationalism part of research is a very dangerous precedent,” she said.
Professor Pillai also objected to plans to discourage “irrelevant research”. “In a country with different languages and different religions, who decides what is irrelevant?” she asked.
“Focusing on the dialect of a small, remote tribal community could be deemed irrelevant by a large proportion of people, but might yield very valuable insights with wider applications.”
The apparent plan to make PhD students choose from a list of topics supplied by departments would “restrict freedom and choice”, Professor Pillai added.
“These rules will be suicidal for India’s research, where we need freedom to critique idea and ask difficult questions – it must not become part of a political system,” she continued.
Professor Pillai said she was surprised but heartened by the reaction to her resignation, which has also prompted Kerala’s chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, to voice his concern.
“I am a single woman fighting alone, and I thought this might not matter [to others], but people have taken notice and begun to debate this issue,” she said.
Asked if it was a “political stunt” linked to forthcoming elections, Professor Pillai replied: “If standing up for free speech is political, then I am political.”
However, G. Gopa Kumar, CUK’s vice-chancellor, claimed that there were “no limits for research works” and that the government’s circular was issued to ensure that researchers did not pursue outdated topics.
“The usage of ‘national priority’ in the circular means those topics that would benefit the economic, social and technological advancement of the nation and society,” he said.
The vice-chancellor added: “It is sad to note that some of the media distorted and manipulated these points without understanding the reality.”
Publicație : The Times
REF must ‘bring hammer down’ on open access books, says professor
Implementing the mandate for open access monographs will be complex but that is the price of “being the leader”, says Cameron Neylon
It is time to “bring the hammer down” and extend open access requirements for the UK’s research excellence framework to monographs, a professor has said.
Cameron Neylon, professor of research communication at Australia’s Curtin University, said that he was “running out of sympathy” for academics who complained that there was not enough time to prepare for the requirement that long-form scholarly works must be made available easily and free of charge, if they are to be submitted to the 2027 assessment.
“You've had 15 years to sort this out, no one did anything for 14-and-a-half of those, so someone had to bring the hammer down at some point,” said Professor Neylon, former advocacy director at the Public Library of Science, who started his career as a chemistry lecturer at the University of Southampton.
The UK’s research funders first announced their intention to include books in the REF’s open access mandate in December 2016, but Professor Neylon told Times Higher Education that it had been mooted long before then.
Academic bodies have raised concerns about how open access would work with “crossover” books, which are based on original research but sell thousands of copies in high street bookshops. However, Professor Neylon, who is executive director of Knowledge Unlatched Research, an independent research group on the usage of open access monographs, said that an exemption that was in place for trade books would also apply to scholarly works.
“The number of books submitted to the last REF that were read by more than 10,000 people is negligible,” he said.
Professor Neylon also addressed the concerns of academics who published with international companies, which do not always offer open access. He admitted that this was a challenge, particularly with publishers in the US, but said that the issue was “bound up with a bigger problem, which is the obsession with where you publish, not what you publish”.
“I rarely hear the argument that people want to publish with a particular press because it has a technical skill set or audience reach, it’s always about publishing in prestigious presses. There’s something really rotten at the heart of scholarship if that’s what really matters,” he said.
Professor Neylon admitted that books were more complex than journals when it comes to open access, because the support systems will need to be different, but that to drive innovation and to figure out the financial models “there has to be some sort of pressure”.
“There is the opportunity to do some things better, with more planning than there was with journal articles, but the reality is that deadlines concentrate people’s minds,” he added.
Professor Neylon was speaking after giving a lecture organised by the National Conference of University Professors in which he hailed several UK institutions as “pushing ahead and leading the world” on open access.
While open access monographs was a complicated issue that was “the price of being the leader”, he said. “Leadership requires taking risks. If everyone was comfortable all the time, what would be the point?”
Publicație : The Times
Università, Bussetti su Medicina: dal prossimo anno il 20% dei posti in più
Il ministro al videoforum di Repubblica: "Abbiamo una carenza di medici". Sull'istruzione l'annuncio sui concorsi ordinari: "Tra maggio e luglio i bandi per le maestre e le superiori, in autunno le prove. Il 10 per cento dei posti sarà riservato ai precari". Maturità: la traduzione sarà di Latino, il Greco nell'analisi del testo. "E con il nuovo esame la Storia non sparisce". Sul congresso delle famiglie dice: "A Verona non parlerò a nome della scuola"
La prima domanda riguarda il Dipartimento di Medicina: aprite le porte, fate entrare tutti coloro che desiderano salvare vite umane, chiede uno studente. "Abbiamo una carenza di medici e necessità di reclutarne di più, questo è evidente", risponde il ministro di Istruzione, Università e Ricerca Marco Bussetti al videoforum di Repubblica annunciando l'aumento del 20 pr cento dei posti dal prossimo anno. Una richiesta partita dalla stessa conferenza dei rettori che ipotizzava la crescita di cinquemila posti in due anni sugli attuali 9.779. "Ma devono crescere anche le borse di specializzazione - aggiunge -, arriveremo ad allineare i numeri di laureati rispetto alle borse".
Nel videoforum condotto da Corrado Zunino il ministro ha affrontato i temi più caldi che riguardano l'università e la scuola, sollecitato anche dalle domande dei lettori raccolte da Repubblica. Bussetti ha fatto alcune anticipazioni sull'esame di Maturità - "la Storia rimane nelle tracce e ora gli studenti dovranno studiarla" - e i tempi dei concorsi ordinari per gli insegnanti. Rispetto al Congresso mondiale della famiglie, che si svolgerà a Verona nel fine settimana, Bussetti conferma la sua presenza: "Ma non vado a parlare a nome della scuola, dove mi invitano io mi presento".
Carenza medici, il ministro Bussetti: "Aumenteremo posti all'università e borse di studio specialistiche"
Reclutamento ricercatori e concorsi truccati
Come affrontare il nodo dei concorsi pilotati e che fine ha fatto l'ufficio di controllo affidato a Dino Giarrusso? "Non si deve chiedere al ministro sulla correttezza di alcuni concorsi: se si hanno dubbi si deve denunciare. L'ufficio di Giarrusso? Non lo so. Mi informerò. Il ministero è troppo grande per controllarlo tutto". Bussetti è poi intervenuto sui ricercatori abilitati. Il viceministro Fioramonti aveva detto: i ricercatori in cinque anni devovo salire in cattedra oppure andranno a casa. Cosa replica? Bussetti è a disagio: "Devo sentire il viceministro su questa affermazione. Noi dobbiamo dare speranza ai nostri ricercatori, non tagliare loro le gambe".
Congresso di Verona
Su questo argomento le domande incalzano: "Quali contenuti porterà come ministro?", "è il Medioevo delle famiglie". E poi, perché "un ministro della Repubblica va a un congresso in cui verranno esposte tesi antiscientifiche e omofobe?". Bussetti replica: "Non vado a parlare in nome della scuola. Non voglio mancare di rispetto a nessuno, se uno mi invita a partecipare a un convegno io accetto, vado, espongo una mia idea. Parlerò di come può essere migliorato il rapporto tra la scuola e la famiglia. Punto e basta. Questo non significa sposare certe idee o discriminarne altre, potrei anche convincere qualcuno. Come Marco Bussetti ho una mia idea di famiglia e me la tengo per me. La migliore situazione è quella dove i ragazzi si trovano bene, dove si risponde ai loro bisogni e questo può avvenire anche in famiglie allargate. Ogni persona ha il diritto di vivere la propria vita e va rispettato per questo. L'amore è amore e le persone vanno rispettate tutte".
"Salvini non è aggressivo"
Interpellato su un suo recente post a difesa del ministro Salvini, il ministro dell'Istruzione dice: "Il linguaggio di Matteo Salvini non è aggressivo, ma diretto. Lo stimo molto".
Scuola: ecco i concorsi
Quando ci sarà il nuovo concorso ordinario per diventare docenti? Il ministro annuncia un bando a breve - a maggio - per l'infanzia e la primaria da 16 mila posti, seimila in più rispetto a quelli inizialmente autorizzati. Entro l'estate - luglio - arriverà il bando per le superiori e medie. In autunno inizieranno i concorsi veri e propri per portare decine di migliaia di docenti in cattedra a partire da settembre 2020. "La scuola ha numeri che consentiranno di assumere molte persone nei tre anni. Quante? Più di 50 mila. Il tema del reclutamento e della stabilizzazione dei docenti attraverso i concorsi ci sta a cuore"."Terza fascia? Facciamo i concorsi e avranno soddisfazione"
"Terza fascia? Supereranno l'esame contenti"
I precari con 36 mesi di servizio avranno il 10 per cento dei posti riservati nei concorsi. Bussetti ha evidenziato le tante forme di reclutamento che la scuola ha conosciuto nei decenni e che hanno prodotto molti contenziosi e promette di fare ordine: "Tiriamo una linea sui concorsi straordinari, l'ultimo sarà quello delle Diplomate magistrali". Agli insegnanti di Terza fascia dice: "Il passaggio attraverso le procedure concorsuali non deve spaventare, chi non vince sarà abilitato e agevolato nel concorso successivo. Una volta superato il concorso i precari avranno grande soddisfazione perché nessuno glielo avrà regalato".
La regionalizzazione scolastica
E' un altro tema che agita il mondo degli insegnanti e dei presidi e sul quale tutti i sindacati sono contrari. Il processo si è rallentato? "Il ministero ha consegnato il lavoro, noi abbiamo chiuso la parte tecnica, ora vedremo come andrà avanti, in accordo con i presidenti delle Regioni", spiega Bussetti.
La nuova Maturità
La seconda prova con le due materie (Latino-Greco, Matematica-Fisica) preoccupa i diplomandi. Il ministro fa chiarezza: "Dobbiamo insistere nel comunicare meglio, chiariamo per esempio che la traduzione sarà di Latino e l'analisi di Greco". Il testo portante, quindi, sarà in latino. Studenti del classico avvertiti. Altra indicazione arriva sull'orale: nelle buste non ci saranno domande, ma "spunti da cui partire per iniziare il colloquio interdisciplinare". Bussetti aggiunge: "Nessun ministro prima di me si è mai preoccupato di fare simulazioni dell'esame".
Gli stipendi degli insegnanti
Franco Capua, docente con 31 anni di servizio, mette il dito sulla piaga: salari fermi e blocco degli scatti di anzianità. "E' mia intenzione lavorare sulla parte retributiva. Diciamo, però, che gli insegnanti rischiavano di perdere soldi a causa del vecchio contratto. Quello che dice il docente è vero, però con la Legge di bilancio al nostro ministero non abbiamo tagliato, abbiamo più o meno mantenuto quello che c'era. Entro il 2019 spero di chiudere il rinnovo del contratto. Vogliamo reclutare nuovo personale amministrativo, mettere a posto i dirigenti scolastici: vedrete che a settembre non ci saranno più le doppie reggenze".
Il crocefisso nelle aule
Un lettore solleva il problema del crocefisso nelle aule, offensivo per chi non crede. "Che fastidio può dare agli atei un crocifisso?, replica Bussetti. E' cultura, è storia, fa parte della nostra identità. Chiedo che rimanga al suo posto, se a qualcuno dà fastidio lo può dire. La nostra scuola italiana è inclusiva, possiamo vantarcene. I nostri docenti hanno un'attenzione e una sensibilità enorme su questo aspetto".
L'Educazione civica
Sarà prevista un'ora aggiuntiva alle superiori - chiede un lettore -, cosa impraticabile se l'aggiunta sarà compensata tagliando un'ora di storia. "In aprile sarà calendarizzata la discussione per l'introduzione dell'Educazione civica, vediamo cosa uscirà. Non sarà un'ora in più, la materia sarà fatta all'interno delle ore curriculari, trasversale alle altre discipline, e il Consiglio di classe deciderà quali temi approfondire".
La Storia alla Maturità
"Il tema di Storia all'Esame di Stato veniva affrontato da basse percentuali di studenti", si giustifica Bussetti toccato dalle critiche per l'eliminazione del tema specifico di Storia sll'esame di Maturità. "Lo studio della Storia è necessario, è la base da cui contestualizzare il presente. L'approfondimento, soprattutto della Storia recente, sarà favorito da queste nuove prove che richiedono conoscenza storica. Lo abbiamo già visto con le simulazioni realizzate in queste settimane sul tema di Italiano".
Publicație : La Repubblica
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