Un interessante intervento

Da un intervento del prof. Santo Francesco Bordone dell'Università di Pisa:

scarica pdf

Molto interessante la prima parte sulle problematiche delle lingue (annoso problema). Interessante e in tema sul mio blog, il secondo punto sull'employment of graduated engineers :

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The media often discuss the question, whether we have in Italy a sufficient number of graduate engineers. Often the comparison with other industrial European countries is to our disadvantage. More often well known journalists and so called experts put the blame of the insufficient growth of the Italian System on the insufficient number of engineers and of graduates in technical subjects. Is this a fair comparison, or is it distorted by the differences of the higher education in different countries ? On the other hand, I know too well the difficulties of our young graduates who can not find a satisfactory job: they write hundreds of letters, usually without answers, they have one interview after another and finally they are compelled to accept an unsatisfactory and not professionally motivating temporary contract with low pay and without any guarantee of continuity, what I call a “ stagelemosina “. The proliferation of postgraduate often useless programmes ( we call masters ) is a consequence.[...]

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I would like to end my talk with a warning from a British colleague: " Letting our graduates squander their talents in low-paid and low-skilled jobs is not just making a mockery of their personal investment in a university education, it is undermining our own investment in our country".