(Adnkronos) - Il rettore dell’Università di Palermo Massimo Midiri racconta i punti di forza del 4° polo universitario italiano
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00:00In fourth place in the Censys classification on the mega-Athens, first in southern Italy after Padova, Bologna, and the Sapienza of Rome, 1,600 teachers, 45,000 students, this is the University of Palermo, Athens, which also aims a lot on social.
00:18Two-thirds of the students enter the so-called non-tax area, so they do not pay a euro in taxes. But besides this, which is an important social function, because I remember that Sicily is in the last place of the number of graduates, so unfortunately we are in the last place overall in Europe, almost on par with Portugal in some situations,
00:38has the intention of promoting the culture of the university being, facing the concept of becoming a player in relation to the territory. I try to explain myself better. It is not only the problem of bringing the boy to a degree, and this is certainly a great institutional task in itself,
01:01but our intention, our vision, which we have tried to carry out for three years, is to become a serious and reliable interlocutor of politics, on the one hand, and of the territory.
01:10Between politics and territory, then, the dialogue is also with business, which the University of Palermo pays attention to, listens to and pays attention to.
01:18We are able to intercept the job offer, so every degree course today has a whole series of entrepreneurial players, who are not only natural stakeholders, but also become interlocutors in the change of the training offer.
01:36That is, our degree courses want to aim above all to say that it is not only learning to know, but it is also important to learn to know how to do, so that the boy, as soon as he leaves the degree course, is in a position to be expendable in a world of work that does not require only a low professional profile, but requires a high specialization.
01:57Finally, the great human and learning difference between the telematics universities and the classical ones, in the presence, let me say, is a point of conflict.
02:05The future of the nation is based on this difference, because it is clear that a degree acquired at home, even with all the means, with all the professionalism, which I have no doubt will be very high,
02:17makes the boy lose something that I call the awareness of becoming a responsible citizen.
02:24The age between 18 and 25, which is the age we basically intercept with the three-year and master's degrees, intercepts a phase of life in which one must create that sense of responsibility that makes a boy connect with the rest of his community.