9 dicembre forconi: 10/01/17

domenica 1 ottobre 2017

Fosse solo “Concorsopoli”: la nostra università fa schifo e l’Italia non ha futuro

Non dite che non sapete che nell’università italiana si avanza per cooptazione. Non dite che non sapete che questo è solo uno dei problemi dell’istruzione superiore italiana. Non dite che non sapete che ci stiamo giocando la nostra ricchezza futura. Diteci solo se e come volete risolverla, grazie

Alzi la mano chi si è stupito, dell’inchiesta della procura di Firenze sulle abilitazioni truccate per gli aspiranti professori di diritto tributario. Alzi la mano chi ha alzato un sopracciglio di fronte a dialoghi in cui il vecchio professore Pasquale Russo dice al giovane aspirante tale Philip Laroma Jezzi che deve «smetterla di fare l’inglese», che «se fai ricorso ti giochi la carriera», che «qui non siamo sul piano del merito», che in questi casi conta «il vile criterio del commercio dei posti».

L’inchiesta farà il suo corso e credere alla presunzione d’innocenza dei professori coinvolti è il minimo. Le prediche alla Pasolini, gli «io so, ma non ho le prove» li lasciamo agli indignati di professione, però, che nemmeno serve. Che il sistema universitario italiano vada avanti a colpi di concorsi pilotati da qualche decennio almeno è uno dei segreti peggio custoditi d’Italia. Chiunque ancorché privo di esperienza diretta abbia un parente o un amico che ha avuto esperienza in merito lo può confermare. Giochiamo a carte scoperte, su.

Il problema è che mentre tutti gli altri sistemi universitari del mondo fanno a gara ad accaparrarsi i talenti migliori,noi chiediamo a chi «come intelligenza e laboriosità vale il doppio» – così il vecchi tributarista Pasquale Russo ha definito Jezzi, secondo le carte della procura – di farsi da parte a un concorso di abilitazione, per far passare i vincitori designati. Che mentre tutti gli altri sistemi promuovono la competizione leale e meritocratica come strumento di avanzamento professionale – o almeno ci provano – noi preferiamo la cooptazione e ne andiamo fieri. Che mentre tutti gli altri Paesi capiscono che avere un grande, prestigioso, dinamico sistema universitario è oggi la prima condizione per sperare in un futuro prospero, noi lo usiamo come mercato delle vacche per piazzare l’amico e il mediocre.

Il problema è che mentre tutti gli altri sistemi universitari del mondo facciano a gara ad accaparrarsi i talenti migliori, noi chiediamo a chi «come intelligenza e laboriosità vale il doppio» di farsi da parte. Che mentre tutti gli altri Paesi capiscono che avere un grande, prestigioso, dinamico sistema universitario è oggi la prima condizione per sperare in un futuro prospero, noi lo usiamo come mercato delle vacche per piazzare l’amico e il mediocre
Sono banalità? Sì, sono banalità. Se volete ne abbiamo altreChe il tasso di passaggio dalle scuole superiori alle università è calato in dieci anni (tra il 2005 e il 2015) di 24 punti percentuali (dal 73% al 49%). Che nello stesso periodo le immatricolazioni sono state 65mila in meno. Che a fronte di un obiettivo di avere il 40% di laureati tra i 30 e i 40 anni entro il 2020, siamo fermi a quota 22,4% (24,2% tra i 25 e i 34, solo la Turchia fa peggio) fanalino di coda dell’Europa a 28. 

Che per l’istruzione superiore spendiamo il 7,4% della spesa pubblica complessiva, quattro punti abbondanti sotto la media Ocse

Che abbiamo tasse universitarie tra le più alte in Europa sei volte più alte di quelle che paga un giovane francese, e che, sempre tra il 2005 e il 2015 sono lievitate del 45%. Che abbiamo il corpo docente più anziano d’Europa e ricercatori con un età media di quasi 44 anni. Che siamo un Paese da cui i giovani emigrano più che dal Messico o dall’Afghanistan.

Forse ha ragione l’amico Alberto Forchielli, che nell’incontro di ieri sera a Linkiesta ci ha ricordato che anche con tutta la buona volontà del caso ci vorranno generazioni per rifondare il sistema universitario italiano

E che nel frattempo la qualità e il denaro che i nuovi giganti dell’economia mondiale stanno investendo in formazione rischiano di rendere vano tale sforzo. Ma se le prossime generazioni vogliono sperare di vivere in un Paese che ha futuro, la battaglia per una scuola meritocratica, efficiente, competitiva, giovane, ricca (sì, ricca sfondata) è l’unica battaglia che conta

Altrimenti, non c’è problema: bandiera bianca e liberi tutti. Ma non dite che non lo sapevate, quando stavate zitti. E non date la colpa ad altri, grazie.

"This Is Fascism": Shocking Footage Of Spanish Police Firing Rubber Bullets, Brutally Beating Peaceful Voters

Update (10:30 am ET): The number of people injured in clashes between pro-independence voters and riot police dispatched to the restive region by the government in Madrid has climbed to 337, including at least 11 police officers, the Daily Starreports.
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Update (10 am ET): In a statement condeming the Spanish government's efforts to stamp out the "free expression" of the Catalan people, FC Barcelona announced that it will be playing today's match against Las Palmas, its first of the season, behind closed doors after the Professional Football League refused to postpone it.
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Update (9:15 am ET): So far, Catalonian emergency services says that 91 people have been injured in violent clashes between Catalonians trying to vote in today's "illegal" independence, according to AFP.
Among the injured, 11 are police officers.
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In scenes one would expect to see in Turkey, or some token third-world dictatorship, on Sunday morning Spanish riot police violently cracked down on the scheduled Catalan independence referendum, smashing their way into polling stations in Catalonia in a dramatic quest to shut down the banned Catalan independence referendum, as they fired rubber bullets and brutally beat peaceful people trying to vote for or against independence from a Spanish government, which many commentators this morning have called "fascist."
Police fired rubber bullets in central Barcelona, El Periodico newspaper reported, at the intersection of two streets as violence erupted during the vote which has thrown Spain into its worst constitutional crisis for decades.
According to Reuters, Catalan emergency services said at least 38 people were hurt as a result of police action, although as the footage below shows the final number will likely be orders of magnitude greater. 
As Conflicts creator Gissur Simonarson said, "Looking at the footage from Spain. It's clear the policy got an order to break this up by any means. They are tossing ppl like rag dolls" adding that "The Spanish government has managed to turn me from indifferent/against #CatalanReferendum to a supporter."
Police burst into the polling station in a town in Girona province minutes before Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was due to vote there. They smashed glass panels to force open the door as voters, fists in the air, sang the Catalan anthem.
Officers with riot shields jostled with hundreds of voters outside one station at a school in Barcelona as the crowd chanted “We are people of peace!” Armored vans and an ambulance were parked nearby.
The referendum has been declared illegal by Spain’s central government in Madrid, which says the constitution states the country is indivisible and has drafted in thousands of police from around Spain into Catalonia to prevent the vote.
The Catalan regional government had scheduled voting to open at 9 a.m. (0700 GMT) at around 2,300 stations, but Madrid said on Saturday it had shut more than half of them.  Voting started at some sites in the region of 7.5 million people, which has its own language and culture and is an industrial hub with an economy larger than that of Portugal. Leader Puigdemont changed plans and voted at a different station after the police action, the regional government said.
As Reuters adds, people had occupied some stations with the aim of preventing police from locking them down. Organizers smuggled in ballot boxes before dawn and urged voters to use passive resistance against police. In a school used as a polling station in Barcelona, police in riot gear carried out ballot boxes while would-be voters chanted “out with the occupying forces!” and “we will vote!”.
The Catalan government said voters could print out ballot papers at home and lodge them at any polling station not closed down by police.
“I have got up early because my country needs me,” said Eulalia Espinal, 65, a pensioner who started queuing with around 100 others outside one polling station, a Barcelona school, in rain at about 5 a.m. “We don’t know what’s going to happen but we have to be here,” she said.
A minority of around 40 percent of Catalans support independence, polls show, although a majority want to hold a referendum on the issue. A “yes” result is likely in the referendum, given most of those who support independence are expected to cast ballots while most of those against it are not. 
Furthermore, the ballot will have no legal status as it has been blocked by Spain’s Constitutional Court and Madrid has the ultimate power under its 1978 charter to suspend the regional government’s authority to rule if it declares independence. In other words, Madrid could have led the referendum pass, declared it illegal, and soon most would forget. Instead, as Simonarson adds, "I'm shocked and disgusted by how Spain has dealt with #CatalanReferendum. If there isn't a violent response to this, I'll be shocked."
Organizers had asked voters to turn out before dawn, hoping for large crowds to be the world’s first image of voting day.
“This is a great opportunity. I’ve waited 80 years for this,” said 92-year-old Ramon Jordana, a former taxi driver waiting to vote in Sant Pere de Torello, a town in the foothills of the Pyrenees and a pro-independence bastion. He had wrapped his wrists in Catalan flags, among 100-150 people who gathered at a local school that had been listed as a polling station, ready to block any police from entering. A tractor also stood guard, though no police had yet arrived.
As reported before, leading up to the referendum Spanish police arrested Catalan officials, seized campaigning leaflets and occupied the Catalan government’s communications hub. But Catalan leaders urged voters to turn out in a peaceful expression of democracy. Families have occupied scores of schools earmarked as voting centers, sleeping overnight in an attempt to prevent police from sealing them off.
“If I can’t vote, I want to turn out in the streets and say sincerely that we want to vote,” said independence supporter Jose Miro, a 60-year-old schools inspector. Only the Catalan police, or Mossos d‘Esquadra, had so far been monitoring polling stations. They are held in affection by Catalans, especially after they hunted down Islamists accused of staging deadly attacks in the region in August.

But national police, who have been drafted into Catalonia in their thousands, stepped in to grab ballot boxes and close stations on Sunday once it became clear the regional police was not clearing sites.
Pro-independence Puigdemont originally said that if the “yes” vote won, the Catalan government would declare independence within 48 hours, but regional leaders have since acknowledged Madrid’s crackdown has undermined the vote.
Perhaps now it is time for the liberal press to explain how sometimes democracy also dies in broad daylight. And while we await to see how this dramatic crackdown against democracy ends, here are some more shocking videos of Spain's brutal crackdown on democracy.