Martinus Scriblerus y Bustos Domecq.

8.2.12.1. Pre-primary, primary and secondary education Information included in this section refer to school year 2007/2008.

The compulsory work schedule of teaching personnel includes what follows:

● teaching activities, covering, within the annual school calendar established at regional level, not less than 5 days a week, for 25 hours in pre-primary school, 22 hours in primary school, plus 2 hours devoted to programming didactic activities, and 18 hours a week in secondary school;

● activities, both quantified and non quantified, functional to teaching:

o individual work: planning of the lesson and of tests, correction of students' work, contacts with students' families etc;

o team-work activities (up to 40 hours a year): participation to the meetings of the teachers assembly (2.6.4.1.), planning and monitoring (at the beginning and at the end of the school year), information to the families about students' final results;

o team-work activities (up to 40 hours a year): participation to the activities of the collegiate bodies of the school (2.6.4.1.);

o carrying out of exams scrutini and of the drawing up of all the documentation related to the evaluation process.

A maximum of 6 additional teaching hours per week can be added to carry out activities functional to teaching (for example activities for increasing the educational offer, or to start pupils to sports, etc). The additional workload is paid, upon decision of the teachers' assembly, within the available budget of the school and in consistency with Plan for the educational offer (POF).

Finally, teachers can work more that the compulsory working time, if the subject they teach has a teaching timetable that overcomes the compulsory minimum or if they take the place of absent colleagues.

Activities that are functional to the POF have been introduced as a support measure for the fulfilment of the school autonomy. These functions are defined by the teachers' assembly in consistency with the POF. Teachers who are in charge of carrying out these functions, have an additional pay, non pensionable, calculated on the resources that the Ministry annually allocates to these purpose.

Since 1989, teaching staff may opt to teach on a part-time basis, usually for 50% of the normal working hours. However, to safeguard uniformity of instruction in the disciplines taught, part-time hours may be set at levels other than 50%. However, the percentage of part-time employments cannot exceed 25% of the whole personnel.

Annual cost in Euros

Professori ordinari 102 600

Professori associati 70 100

Researchers 48 400

The contract of 1999, confirmed by contract of 2003 and 2007, has introduced further changes as regards holidays, leaves and absences, confirming above all a different treatment reserved for permanent teachers (formerly called teachers with tenure) and temporary teachers (formerly fill-ins).

Teachers with a permanent contract have the right every school year to what follows:

● 30 working days of holidays, 6 of which during periods of teaching activities, for the first 3 years and 32 after the first 3 years; if teachers cannot benefit from these holidays totally or partially, they'll be able to make use of them within the following school year during suspension of teaching activities;

● 8 days leave to participate in competitions or examinations, 3 days for mourning, 3 days for documented special personal or family reasons, 15 days for marriage, 5 days to participate in updating initiatives;

● short leave of up to 2 hours a day (for a maximum corresponding to the weekly teaching hours), to be made up within 2 months;

● sick leave for a period of 18 months, with full retribution for the first 9 months, equal to 90% for the subsequent 3 months and 50% for further 6 months;

● maternity leave, with full retribution if women teachers take compulsory leave. This period includes the two months prior to the presumed date of birth and three months following the birth; however, law no.53 of 8 March 2000 foresees the possibility to postpone one month leave from work from before the delivery to after the child’s birth. During the child’s first three years mother and father have 30 days maternity/paternity leave for every year of the child. Furthermore, mother and father are entitled to 5 days each to attend to children of 3-8 years of age who are ill;

● leaves of absence to hold an elective office.

Teachers can also – but without retribution – take the unpaid leave of absence for family reasons or reasons of study and research, to hold office, to make use of grants, to carry out one year work experience in another sector of the public administration or to pass an induction period.

Provisions regarding holidays, leaves and absences established for the personnel employed on a permanent basis apply also to teachers with a fixed-term contract with the following limitations:

● holidays are proportional to length of service;

● if employed with a contract stipulated for the entire school year, or until the end of teaching activities, the teacher has the right to the conservation of his/her post in case of illness for a period not longer than 9 months in three years, with full retribution for the first month and retribution reduced to 50% for the second and third months.

8.2.12.2. Tertiary education

Professors at both levels and research professors can choose between a full-time and a part-time commitment. The full-time commitment is incompatible with any professional or advice activity, any paid assignment, any commercial or industrial activity. On the contrary it is compatible with scientific and journalistic activities carried out of the institutional tasks and it is a preferential title for the participation in the advice and research activities assigned to Universities by other public administrations, public or private bodies, by means of agreements or contracts. The part-time commitment is incompatible with the office of Rector, Preside, elective member of the Board of Directors, Director of the department and Director of the research Doctorate courses and with commercial or industrial activities. It is compatible with professional activities and external advice activities.

The commitment for the research activity is not computable; it is evaluated by a report, submitted every 3 years to the faculty council (2.6.4.2.) about the scientific work carried out.

Professori ordinari and research professors are entitled to the same types of paid and unpaid leave as public employees in general. They are also entitled to a period of leave for study reasons.

In particular, professors and researchers are placed on unpaid leave by law for incompatibility with other offices, for example election to a political position, also on the local level, or appointment to an office of management in government administration.

Other forms of unpaid leave and limitation of didactic activity may be arranged as a consequence of attribution to the educator of such positions as director of an institute, laboratory or centre of the National Research Council or regional, national or international research organisations.

These periods of unpaid leave are applicable to career progression, trattamento di quiescenza and pension. National Research Council (CNR)

8.2.13. Promotion, advancement