strike action
This blog joins the protest of Italian academics against the 'Moratti Bill'; the Bill introduces an intolerable element of uncertainty, and severely undercuts job security for research and didactic positions in the Italian academia.
The protest involves lessons being held in public squares, suspension of teaching, meetings with the public, and the strict observation of contractual rules by University teachers; this alone, if protracted, would grind the academic system to a halt.
The 'Moratti reform' is a long step towards a much needed restructuring of the Italian system; a long step in the wrong direction - ill-advised, overtly aiming at the commodification of knowledge, and ultimately undermining the individual freedom to purse creative research, independent of market needs.
As if the cut of research funding - approved by the Berlusconi government two years ago - had not made academic life enough of a misery.
Read more on the site of the Unita' newspaper (Italian, leftist), or look at a map of the protest.
The protest involves lessons being held in public squares, suspension of teaching, meetings with the public, and the strict observation of contractual rules by University teachers; this alone, if protracted, would grind the academic system to a halt.
The 'Moratti reform' is a long step towards a much needed restructuring of the Italian system; a long step in the wrong direction - ill-advised, overtly aiming at the commodification of knowledge, and ultimately undermining the individual freedom to purse creative research, independent of market needs.
As if the cut of research funding - approved by the Berlusconi government two years ago - had not made academic life enough of a misery.
Read more on the site of the Unita' newspaper (Italian, leftist), or look at a map of the protest.
posted by wainer at 8:28 am
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