Meeting on Technical and professional education
It took place last Tuesday at the MIUR a meeting on technical and vocational attended by FLC CGIL and CGIL, CISL and CISL School, SNALS, UIL, Gilda, and ANP. The Ministry said at that meeting that they intend to audit courses of technical education, as required by law 40/2007 and Ministerial Decree 226/2005, as of 1 September 2009, which means prepare new schedules and new addresses now, since you will have to proceed in January with the inscriptions. The line on which the Ministry intends to move not intend to differ markedly from what has been defined by a special commission that was established by the Minister Fioroni and who had completed the work to an end of the previous legislature. This decision establishes the fact that the original Decree 226, the Ministry does not seem willing to return to economic and technological schools, but to maintain the technical and vocational schools, although these provisions will slip to 2010 due to complications interweaving of tasks between the state and regions.
The Ministry has, however, provided only general guidelines and not detailed tools that allow to understand the exact consequences of the operation (planning schedules, new classes of competition, junctions, etc..). These will be delivered to the CNPI likely to be called to examine them next week.
For now, therefore, the ministry has only confirmed the following intentions:
- technical education divide into two sectors; statement (address: administration-finance and tourism-marketing) and technology (address: mechanics-mechatronics-energy, logistics and transport, electrical-electronics, information-telecommunications, graphic-communications, chemical- biology, textiles and clothing, fashion, agriculture and agro-industry, construction and environment-territory);
- predict a time of 32 hours per week equal to 1056 hours per year, divided as follows: the first two years, 693 + 363 general specifications, 495 general and 561 specific period;
- build pathways based on the model 2 + (2 +1) with the last year for the university policy or work;
- promoting education for laboratories but also a link with the world of work;
- include learning outcomes and level of qualifications in the European system of degrees and qualifications framework (EQF);
- provide for a degree of autonomy of schools by 20% in the first two years time, 30% in the second period and 35% in the terminal;
- departments of an organization to provide schools for the second set, however, national guidelines dictated by the Ministry;
- be in every school a technical-scientific committee formed not only by professors or experts, but also designated by businesses, professionals, local authorities etc..;
- giving schools the possibility to make use of experts drawn from business or profession in works contract;
- set up a technical office in each school;
- maintain the system of state examinations to obtain a title of Perito attended together with details of the address;
- to involve the establishment of technical schools and technical vocational centers;
- technical institutes to the reference basis for the development of technical colleges;
- issue new decrees concerning staffing, profiles dell'addetto technical office (to be negotiated with the union), criteria and procedures for areas of joint guidelines, guidelines for relating learning and disciplines, the establishment of a national committee for the ' technical education, updating at least every 5 years of law;
- undertake monitoring and evaluation of all from the INVALSI
- issue tables of confluence between the old and new addresses;
- start the reorganization of the professional in 2010, initiating the reduction to 32 hours, possibly enhancing the experience of the 2002 project, and giving them a range of 25% with the possibility of interaction with vocational training.
Almost all the unions present, including the FLC CGIL, have expressed concerns about the vagueness of purpose exhibited, failure to deliver documents will go to the CNPI and tight deadlines for implementation, in fact the first of January of the inscriptions, which produce the risk of confusing teachers and families, as well as the discrepancy in time between professional and technical services. Several other objections of other passages in the documents will be reported in writing that the unions have pledged to send in the next few days. As for the FLC CGIL public will make our observations and our criticism, in a plan which we definitely know the capabilities of cutting policies and reduction of resources for the school.
Rome, September 26, 2008
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