"The number of exams and graduates has not changed since last year. The university has not stopped," University Minister Gaetano Manfredi told Sky tg24.
"The state exam for access to professions is foreseen by the constitution and therefore cannot be abolished".
"Plexiglass in university classrooms? No, we're not thinking about it. Let's think instead about extending the time for lessons and more classrooms. There will therefore be a different organization," said the minister. "From September we will start with face-to-face lessons but we will also allow integration with distance learning because we have the problem of crowding the classrooms, so there will be alternations, and on the other we have the problem of foreign and off-site students who will request dad. We don't have to leave anyone behind. "
"We will intervene on university fees by widening the no tax area, up to 20 thousand euros of Isee income will not pay taxes. Between 20 thousand and 30 thousand there will be very important discounts and then there will be specific interventions managed by individual universities to intercept the families who have suffered a sudden drop in income and not photographed by the ISEE ".
"We have increased the fund for university scholarships to ensure that there is an expansion of the access modality. We are working with the State-Regions conference. Then there will be bonuses to bridge the digital divide." "There will also be a major commitment to research, a large government-funded plan," he added.
"After starting with Medicina we are trying to transform the degrees into qualifying degrees in such a way that the graduation exam is simultaneously a state exam for access to the profession. Let's think about Dentistry, Pharmacy and Veterinary that already provide in their system many internships. I will present this bill in the coming weeks in Parliament but I hope that from next year it will be a reality. "
