From Region 10 million less in 2011 EDISU
"So too will disappear 12 000 scholarships"
ANDREA ROSSI
THE PRESS - TORINO - 06/10/2010
ministry statistics leave little doubt in the Piedmont there is a right to an education system that works, one of the best in Italy. All students who are eligible receive support, from 2000 to 4500 € per year. There are regions where - more than one hundred per cent - the cover does not exceed forty per cent. The region has grown in the house a little gem, but now threatens to shatter. "In 2011 we can not provide scholarships, and even keep open the university residences. In short, we can close, "is unleashed for the president of the right to study Maria Grazia Pellerin.
fault of the cuts cross-Ministry of Education Region. The Edisu a balanced budget this year close to 65 million euro: about two-thirds was spent on scholarships for more than 12 000 students, the rest in services and maintenance contracts 23 locations in the region, including 15 in Turin. In July, the adjustment of the budget passed by the junta has reduced the allocation Cota regional to year, from 25 to 17 million euro. "We did it only because of the surpluses of previous management," says Maria Grazia Pellerino the President, "a sign that we had used the resources wisely and virtuous."
Next year will no longer be possible. The boxes are empty. And in budget 2011, the Region has almost cleared funds: 17 million to 7 million, a scissor kick by 60 percent to be added to slimming imposed by the minister Gelmini, another ten million less. Twenty million of scissors on a budget of 65 have a cut of the ax from which no one would know out unscathed. Imagine a body that has no chance to raise private funds for providing a public service. "Barely able to cope with the contracts for the management of the residences, suppliers, services." And the rest? "With these figures we can not deliver services."
The President EDISU Cota wrote to the governor asking that the Region should review the cut. The replied, indirectly, Councillor Joan Budget Quail: "I think they alarmism premature, given that the budget must still be discussed. There is no evidence to support these figures. " According to Quail 'funds referred to is waste of state funds, while regional authorities have yet to be established and are part of the resources that we define and discuss in class. " The reference is to the hoard of 333 million still to be divided. But the explanation does not convince the opposition. The director of the PD Roberto Placido, who had raised the case in July, attacking with his head down: "So much of the investment on the future of our youth. Instead of being on TV Cota think of securing the funds necessary to maintain the levels Piedmont of excellence that have always distinguished it. "
another tile to the University of Piedmont, already facing an avalanche of problems. The other day, in front of the regional budget, which reduced - at least for now - the funds for universities and research from 144 to 7 million euro from the academies has not raised any protest. Even yesterday, on the other hand we thought the students: "Here it tramples the Constitution," says Alice Graziano, President of the Senate of the University students. "Article 34 states that capable and worthy, even without financial resources, have the right to attain the highest levels of education. "
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