Public schools need new forms of funding, also to cover the salaries of teachers who could undergo regional differentiation.
And to find them, one could open up to private funding.
This was stated by the Minister of Education and Merit
Giuseppe Valditara
on the dialogue platform promoted by PwC and the Gedi group "Italia 2023: people, work, business" in a speech taken up by La Repubblica.
The yes of the principals.
Increasing the salaries of school staff living in the north "is a fairly sensible measure":
Mario Rusconi
,
head of the Rome PNA principals, told
ANSA, echoing the words of Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara .
As for the entry of private individuals into schools, "this already happens, especially in high schools and professional techniques. We need to see the conditions in which the private sector enters, but schools need funds, the resources available to local authorities are not many And the schools should have the statute of foundations to have speed in carrying out the work and savings in costs".
We need to "find new ways, even experimental ones, of synergy between the production system, civil society and schools, to finance education, in addition to government efforts", he explained.
To avoid the risk of finding many companies willing to finance institutions only in some territories, creating incurable disparities for public schools, according to the minister, the solution is "the creation of a centralized and ministerial equalization fund which allows us, with the funds attracted for a high school in Brescia, to also finance one in Palermo or a professional institute in Caserta".
According to Valditara "we must have the courage to remove education and research from the constraints of Maastricht".
Furthermore, "those who live and work in a region of
Teachers "must be in sufficient numbers, have adequate training and guarantee educational continuity. We will launch an important recruitment - he underlines -. We have already met with the trade unions. It is a matter of weeks".
In the future of education, according to Valditara, there is also room for artificial intelligence, of which "we must not be afraid, it is enough to govern it, otherwise it becomes a risk. However, teachers - he reassures us - will not be replaced by robots".
