Regulations

From art. 3 of the Constitution to the Statute of the Università Mediterranea, the section offers an overview of the rules relating to the university sector and all the documents that arise from the regulatory autonomy recognized to universities.

Born as corporations in the Middle Ages, universities have given rise to a copious production of regulations that affect bureaucratic and organizational aspects, as well as purely didactic ones, which have been the object of the various and often contrasting reforms that have continued up to the present day.

In Italy, the university is not a state body, but is configured as a public institutional body with a specific purpose (indicated in art. 33, paragraph 2, of the Constitution).

It has, so far, been endowed with didactic, scientific, research, administrative and accounting autonomy. It issues its own statutes and regulations, and the freedom of teaching makes the teacher free to exercise his teaching functions without political, religious or ideological constraints.

With the approval of the Bassanini law, the most important revolution in the Italian university system was started, which had a particular impact on the teaching system by starting a radical redefinition of the qualifications awarded by the Universities; from the academic year 2001/2002, with the transition from the old system to the new, the reform came into full force. In 2001, the new Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) began to fully operate.

• L.168/89: Establishment of the Minister of University and Scientific and Technological Research (MURST, autonomy, University Regulations for Administration, Finance and Accounting)
• L.341/90: Reform of university teaching systems (DU, SSD, tutoring, CFU)
• L.390/91: Rules on the right to university studies (reorganisation of legislation on the right to study, part-time, honorary loan, FSI, Regional body