(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 28 - "We need an overall enhancement of our graduates, even if women pay more than men. We must ensure that their employment is consonant and congruous with the level and type of studies done remains a key point in our country. This will also determine the desire of our young people to enroll at university ".
Thus the Minister of University and Research, Maria CristinaMessa, speaking at the presentation of the AlmaLaurea report "Graduates and graduates: choices, experiences and professional achievements".
"We need a cultural revolution that leads to a greater, different and more incisive awareness and sensitivity of our country. Universities have a deeply rooted role and responsibility in this. They can do it with many tools, with public engagement, orientation, with I
would like universities to become a model: it is not enough to stop and write the gender balance sheets, but we must follow them carefully, we need to actually implement them, we need a constant evaluation of the impact to really verify how much each year we manage to move towards a real inclusion of equal opportunities for all ", underlined the minister.
"Then there are various measures to support this cultural movement that must be created. In the recent decree that increases the overall value of scholarships and in which we have tried to expand the audience of beneficiaries, we have provided incentives for girls to enroll in Stem degrees and for mobility, with an increase in scholarships especially for off-site people. We are also creating more residences for them and we will continue to work on the no tax area as well.
We must create the conditions and encourage girls and boys to choose their future in a way that is as independent of economic conditions as possible of departure ".
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