FRANCESCO CIRO RAMPULLA

L'evoluzione del diritto allo studio tra Stato e Regioni  

N. 4/1985

Summary — The subject of the right to study has many facets, being articulated in interventions inherent in the organization, also structural, of the studies as such, interventions of social equalization among the students and interventions of a logistical type meant to favour the best access and the attendance to the studies.

From an institutional point of view the role of the public operative bodies is constitutionally shared by the State, the Regions and the Universities. Now, if the division of the roles is clear in its essential features, much less it is in its operative reflections. As a matter of fact, the lack of a State skeleton law has encouraged the taking root at regional level of solutions both institutional and functional very much diversified which, notwithstanding the endeavours of the single Regions, are running the risk of giving rise to inequalities, even profound, among users.

The bill of skeleton law presented by the Minister of Education in 1985 is aiming only at defining the boundaries of the respective competences among the State, the Regions and the Universities and not to prescribe principles apt to direct unitedly the public action and avoid the disparities of treatment.

In order to keep clear of this type of dangers inherent in the proposed skeleton law, some fundamental suggestions are set down which guarantee on one side regional autonomy and that of the Universities and on the other the coherence of the system.