Carrozza’s (Cnr) passion for online universities
The case of the president of the CNR, Maria Chiara Carrozza, former Minister of Education in the Letta government, and the Multiversity group of the Pagaso, Mercatorum and San Raffaele online universities. Francis Walsingham's letter
Dear director,
are you losing steam?
On the other hand, it's normal: today Facebook informed me that it's your birthday (best wishes). And at 54 it is normal for failures to begin at work too.
I saw proof of this in your tasty press review yesterday : there were two gems that you didn't catch. I would like to point them out to you for the benefit of your readers.
Friends of the Secret Services – who avidly and rightly monitor Dagospia to see where the wind of the strong powers is blowing, even if a little rotten; and the wind is not blowing in favor of the Meloni government – they pointed out to me that the site directed by Roberto D'Agostino two days ago relaunched the Start Magazine article on the new appointments at the top of the Multiversity group of the British fund CVC (which controls three very important private online universities) and after a few hours he would have canceled it since it can no longer be found online. Was it just a technical mix-up or efficient and effective lobbyists who advised Dagospia to delete the piece? Ah, to know it, the great D'Agostino would say.
Another gem that you didn't mention in your press review is a piece of news from some time ago that would be appropriate to remember today given the case that you appropriately highlighted of the president of the Cnr (National Research Council), Maria Chiara Carrozza, who entered with great fanfare in be part of the advisory board of the aforementioned Multiversity group. I went to read precisely the role and functions of the Cnr from their website: “The National Research Council (CNR) is a public national research body with multidisciplinary skills, supervised by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR). Founded in 1923, it has the task of carrying out scientific research projects in the main sectors of knowledge and applying the results for the development of the country, promoting innovation, the internationalization of the "research system" and promoting the competitiveness of the industrial system". .
I frankly wonder whether the government has anything to say – or rather, to object to – that the state-appointed president of the National Research Council sits on the advisory board of a private group that owns three online universities. Shouldn't the president of the CNR be impartial? So either be present on all the advisory boards of all private universities or on no advisory board. I would say in no advisory board, but evidently the Meloni government cares nothing about the matter.
However, this wasn't the gem I wanted to point out to you. I wanted to talk to you about some old news regarding Carrozza (who was also Minister of Education in the Letta government from 2013 to 2014) and online universities. In the drawers of my desk there is a newspaper clipping dated 31 May 2013 (I don't remember whether it is from the newspaper Libero, del Tempo or del Giornale because I didn't also cut out the headline). Here is the summary of the title: “Professor in Carrozza took the position by correspondence. In 2006, the Minister of Education, then an associate professor in Pisa, won the competition for full professor at the Marconi online university, but was not hired. A few months later he returns to Tuscany. As rector."
Dear editor, I would say that the issue deserves an ad hoc piece. Also because at the Cnr there are stories about the deeds of the current president of the Cnr and not only for the telematics dossier: there are facts, episodes and pleasantries that no newspaper has yet told.
Actually no, dear director. I strongly advise you against writing an article on the topic. Because friends who work or have worked at Google (where, I think, some of the leaders of the Multiversity group come from) have already unleashed (I don't know if even hired) consultants, communicators, lobbyists and even (it seems) your colleagues to keep a close eye on you and understand who knows what hidden purposes are behind the articles in Start Magazine . I recommended this tweet of yours to these friends – I don't know if it's still said like that – which I see posted on your profile . But many now think that journalists, and even newspaper editors, are influencers on the payroll of communicators and lobbyists.
Thank you for your attention and best regards,
Francis Walsingham
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/la-passione-di-carrozza-cnr-per-le-universita-telematiche/ on Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:11:51 +0000.