"The government should have had more courage in order to guarantee a financial basis... in such a crucial sector as university and research funding," Fioramonti, who is from the Five Star Movement and was named as education minister in September, explained in his post.
"It seems resources for the school and research system can never be found, while hundreds of millions of euros destined for other uses are recovered in a matter of hours when the political will is there," he claimed.
"I accepted the post with the sole objective of radically reversing the tendency that for decades has placed Italian education and research at a condition of significant disadvantage," continued Fioramonti.
"Without adequate resources, it is impossible even to staunch the emergencies that afflict the public school and university system," he wrote.
Fioramonti said publicly soon after taking office four months ago that Italy's education system needs "investments of 3 billion euros (about 3.3 billion U.S. dollars) in the 2020 budget: 2 billion for the school system and one billion for research. If they are not there, I will resign."