L and university enrollment in recent years have dropped sharply and this is a fact.
Istat data: show that in just two years, while the number of Italian students who have graduated has grown considerably, the number of members universities fell by 4.4%. The Istat and the Ministry of Education confirmed fact that the number of students promoted a graduation examination has increased substantially and that, contrary to university inputs have decreased. In the current academic year, comparing students who entered with the graduates of the previous year, only two out of three students (67 percent) chose to continue their education after high school. Two years ago the percentage was higher: more than 75 percent. But the loss of interest in pursuing a career training college that causes can be behind him? It 's true that the universities, the formanzione all life learning, graduating, do not attract more young people?
sure is that the promise of a future business and consistent with appropriate qualification attained does not seem to be maintained and in response folds elsewhere.
In Italy, the number of registrations in academic year 2008/2009 saw a record low score of the last seven years, in fact only the last two years the enrollment in universities declined by over 4% per academic year. Speaking through the numbers we can see that the registered fall in 2006/2007 were 326,500, in 2008/2009 were 312mila. Looking at the current year, 2009/2010 to 30,662 are registered at the university, then actually the situation is not so gray. You should worry about something else! For example the type of training and education can achieve that Italian students, the education system abnormalities Italy, a constructive dialogue with other European educational systems and not.
If we take into account the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science for the excellence and Communication Sciences, humanist par excellence, the decline is equally important or not? I data show us that:
-The first sees the number of registered very slight decline from the point of view of registration both for the registration renewal for subsequent years .
-The second situation is one more "dramatic" registrations have grown from 1208 to the faculty of the academic year 2007-08, with 833 of those who have enrolled in the course degree this year. Cala also the number of those who continue their training: from 5671 to 4080 of the academic year 07/08 current. And here the numbers are significant and the explanatory power in place.
The contrast between the employment opportunities promised by training a sociological / humanistic and those offered by a concrete path to scientific and technical make more a difference! In fact, the Faculty of Sociology in registrations are suffering is that in the years after enrollment, while the complex of the Faculty united under the great name of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, sees his numbers remain constant. Compared to the 2007/08 academic year 2009/2010 Architecture enrolled in the fall, Law, Engineering, Humanities, Psychology, Political Science, with a parallel increase in subscriptions to Economics, Pharmacy, Medicine and Surgery, Oriental Studies.
And then in addition to science, is becoming more valuable language skills. Behind the choice of university student, the big question: "study what I like" your "study that will make me work." "The answer my friend is blowing in the wind."
But I come to reiterate that the beyond personal choices and situations, we should ask what is the situation of Italian universities? What are the issues that affect? E 'or may be a point of excellence?
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The faculties are as poor in terms of structural, technical and logistical resources are limited and scarce and suffers teaching and learning, the student accordingly. Funding if / when they arrive can not place permanent solutions to large gaps. (IlSolo24Ore)
is penalized research is to deny the development potentials of students and do not provide significant employment opportunities, linked to the continuation of their university career. All this is closely linked to the lack of meritocracy, which dominates in the academic career, as in many other areas of the Italian system (for example, in PA, but this time without controversy that is). In those circumstances, one might think that the many appeals brain drain, rhetoric is not only bland, but a concrete reality, now the second time over / under estimated, but that it could become a growing phenomenon and burdensome. E 'on the run from Italy, 7% of graduates / doctors, but the data tell us that England saw leave the homeland as much as 15% of its young and Ireland salutes a graduate in four. But young people of these countries, where they go? In Italy? If we consider the data against, what they tell us our worth Italy for foreigners in the UK 16 out of 100 graduates from abroad, in Ireland 18%! In Switzerland and Canada, the foreign brains are 1 in 4.
In Italy we are at 6%, half the OECD average. So: we export less skills abroad and are unable to attract skills.
It 'clear that addressing an issue like this, which has its origins rooted in the Italian situation and not happy, would address the problem looking for a solution that would lead to more funding, attention to research, content, experiences, improvement of facilities and the organizational environment, to compete with international standards but rather to promote education quality Italian.