Open Letter ; The Minister of Education Mariastella Gelmini
knowledge and the Director General for the school system Mario Giacomo Dutto
Gent.mo Minister Gelmini,
are Daniel Mann, a professor Computer in service for 18 years at the Istituto Tecnico Commerciale "cost" of Lecce, and am going to write about how much it expresses, perhaps, the thought of many, if not all, my colleagues in Italy who teach my material the address "Programmers" at the Technical Commercial. Taking
vision of reordering Technical Institutes one can not see how it was totally eliminated in the Economic Sector address "program" (address where information technology is one of the main subjects, and between the other, over the past twenty years has seen the number grow exponentially of membership, given the market demand of the particular figure outgoing) and how the current 5:06 hours per week of Computer will go in September, at best, only two hours to (for the first four years) and 0 (zero) hours for the fifth year.
Now, even wanting to neglect the aspects of sheer wonder why is so drastically reduced the number of hours of current and so on in vocational technical education, particularly in the economic field, I can not bring to your knowledge what this will mean reduction in the specific case of our school. The Institute
"Costa" Lecce over the past decade has reached the status of excellence and has distinguished himself nationally and internationally for its avant-garde approach to the deep and careful attention paid to the new communication systems through the use of ' computer science and the study of the Web and its services. In my communication with this queue will find a list of achievements and awards, since 2000, when it was awarded by the U.S. "Best of the Blues Website Award".
We received the first potential of the Internet, having been the first school in Italy to have started a web server in the in 1994, and since then we have been able to specialize our students and our pupils in the use of innovative communication technologies, heading towards great demand professions in the world of business and economics, just as you would expect, we thought, from a technical institute Commercial.
Not only that, the "cost" is probably the only school in Italy in 2004 to have created an internal genuine company working (Ariano SCRL - www.arianoa.it ) which has members and graduates of the institute that acts as an incubator business in web design and web marketing, offering the opportunity for their students to enter immediately after graduation in a real working environment and pride. She feels that this experience could be a good example of school-work "? Precisely because of this experience "unique", the Ministry of Education has invited and hosted the "Coast" at the last edition of "Job & Orienta" in Verona.
Now all this will end in September.
All the experience gained in these years of hard work in being able to define a path of excellence and preparation, able to make our students and our school a cutting edge education Italian technical has reached a point where it will not serve any more. Since coming
my colleagues and I will have a maximum of 2 hours per week spent in each class, with all the great graphics and all the good will of this world will no longer be entirely possible to continue on the path of specialization excellent undertaken so far.
Probably, and I hope so, I will answer that there is no problem because, by virtue of the flexibility spaces, our Institute will shape the working week and provide a further 5 to 6 hours of class per week for Informatics . But at the expense
what matters? We may reduce or eliminate altogether, for example, the second foreign language? We may exceed the 32 total hours per week of lessons and reach 34 or 36 hours? In that way, practical and operational, you can manage that "30-35%" of autonomy is referenced in the document presenting the shuffle?
Or is there even a small hope that you can modify the plan and provide for the "conservation" (the term was ever more inadequate, given the innovative nature of the topic) of study "Programmers 'within' technical area and the business sector?
Thank you for your attention and I wish you good work.
Daniele Manni
Professor of Computer Science
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