Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-05-Speech-4-048"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-09-05"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20020905.3.4-048"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-05-Speech-4-0492
lpv:speaker	lp:Gianni Vattimo2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Mrs Gutiérrez-Cortines’ excellent report is a milestone, for this is the first report tabled before Parliament to be so comprehensive and well-structured. There has been talk, particularly in recent years, following Lisbon, of the need to develop a knowledge-based Europe, but this has in many respects thus far remained just a good intention. Those like myself who have experienced the effects of the Erasmus and Socrates programmes in universities know, despite the frequently limited scale of the programmes caused by lack of funding, how much impact they have had both in terms of widening the horizons of students and lecturers and in terms of creating extensive European awareness among the citizens, starting with the families of those who have benefited from the programmes. Our task is now to extend the Union’s attention and action to a large number of other aspects of higher education, most importantly encouraging the dissemination of the good practices of some countries in all the other countries of the Union, promoting the right of all the citizens to study irrespective of their financial situation, and this can be achieved by expanding public higher education, which is the only form of education which attracts investments that are not subject to the mindset of quick profits and which is therefore able to guarantee all the citizens access to higher education, which is necessary for the renewal of the ruling classes. We must not disregard the fact that the supremacy of public universities in some countries of the Union is currently under threat from alarming privatisation trends, which are in danger of irreparably reducing the freedom of study and diminishing the quality of research and teaching, placing greater emphasis on income than on merit and ability. The Gutiérrez-Cortines report takes this situation into account and contains a number of important proposals. I would like to point out that it calls upon the Commission to set up a ‘European University House’ providing the academic world – including students, lecturers and the various agencies operating in the sector – with an autonomous way of asserting their needs and making proposals. This would be an interesting example of the application of the principle of subsidiarity to a sector of European culture which is crucial to all our work."@en1
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