The search is on fire and Italy was terribly burned by ignorance! The controversy continues, the disaster is not imminent, is already done and now tries to run for cover to find the glimmer of hope for a change ... You try to salvage!
I refer to the state of research in Italy, the quality of universities, high schools and lower primary schools and kindergartens. I refer to this world of cultural production that is disappearing in Italy, or maybe ... it's already gone. The famous weekly
NATURE reports the abyss in which the current government has pushed us and from which the previous government there has spared.
Because I think it is unnecessary to continue to discuss and write words, I hope the few readers of this blog be content to read the words of nature (or even this is a weekly manipulated by the left?) And can get an idea watching the video starring our beloved Minister Brunetta.
Scientific organizations affected by the civil-service bill have instead been received by the bill's designer, Renato Brunetta, minister of public administration and innovation. Brunetta maintains that little can be done to stop or change the bill — even though it is still being discussed in committees, and has yet to be voted on by both chambers. In a newspaper interview, Brunetta also likened researchers to capitani di ventura, or Renaissance mercenary adventurers, saying that to give them permanent jobs would be "a little like killing them". This misrepresents an issue that researchers have explained to him — that any country's scientific base requires a healthy ratio of permanent to temporary staff, with the latter (such as postdocs) circulating between solid, well equipped, permanent research labs. In Italy, scientists tried to tell Brunetta, this ratio has become very unhealthy. The Berlusconi government may feel that draconian budget measures are necessary, but its attacks on Italy's research base are unwise and short-sighted. The government has treated research as just another expense to be cut, when in fact it is better seen as an investment in building a twenty-first-century knowledge economy. Indeed, Italy has already embraced this concept by signing up to the European Union's 2000 Lisbon agenda, in which member states pledged to raise their research and development (R&D) budgets to 3% of their gross domestic product. Italy, a G8 country, has one of the lowest R&D expenditures in that group — at barely 1.1%, less than half that of comparable countries such as France and Germany.
The government needs to consider more than short-term gains brought about through a system of decrees made easy by compliant ministers. If it wants to prepare a realistic future for Italy, as it should, it should not idly reference the distant past, but understand how research works in Europe in the present >>. http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=WFLXgvqE7Nc <