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By Tiziana Di Giovannandrea
07 November 2021 The Minister of Education, Patrizio Bianchi, announced in the program 'Che Tempo Che Fa' that by November the
calls for safety
and
school
infrastructure
will arrive
: "Already this year we have invested heavily in school safety, we have given 3 billion used the previous European funds. The 18 billion resources for education foreseen by the NRP are divided into two parts: 13 billion for infrastructures: by November we will calls for 5 billion in canteens, basic full-time gyms, new zero-impact schools and nurseries where there is still too much difference between North and South ". In addition, the minister specified: "We will do all this by accompanying it with another 5.4 billion in investments to reduce early school leaving". Help is also needed for municipalities: "It is
unacceptable that
too many children start school and do not finish it
, we will also have to invest in the spending capacity of our municipalities that we will support "in the management of the NRP.
Regarding the
vaccination obligation
in schools, he specified:" For responsibility, the staff have almost all vaccinated, we are at 94.5% for the first dose and 92.5% for the second "," if we add people who cannot get vaccinated for health reasons we are close to 100% "adding:" We are over 70% as regards vaccinated children, in particular between 16 and 19 years to 84%. There was a united response, responsible and present throughout the country. Now we have to pay attention to the little ones. "On the new rules that provide for
quarantine
with three cases per class and not just one, he stated: "We have worked with CTS, Regions and the Ministry, we have standardized the rules throughout the country and we have given more attention to tracing and responsibility. The vaccine is fundamental, but a sense of responsibility".
Bianchi believes it is essential to invest more in
scientific
culture
with a necessary orientation for boys from middle school, responding to the lack of mathematics teachers: "Not only must we invest more in scientific culture, but we must significantly increase the number of boys and girls who enroll in mathematics. Graduates in mathematics, very few today, are instead the basis of all that is the enormous transformation of our economic-social system, the basis of the new information technology, the new cyber ". "We need to accompany children from middle school with orientation - he added - to allow them to find their vocation and also to show them how scientific culture is now a fundamental part of our life".
About the next
graduation exam
, the Minister of Education specified: "We are working on it, but until we are completely out of Covid, we must put our children in total safety". "I give a good judgment on what we have done. There was no botched thesis", he added and then underlined that "this country must find a sense of deep unity in the school. As for the possibility of
increasing the salaries of teachers
, the theme "is part of the current budget. We are making a reasoning. Parliament will be able to intervene on the current budget and have its say on these issues as well. "On
wheeled benches,
he assessed:" Wheeled benches were a choice made at a particular moment, now we are at a later stage ".