Transcript Italian Statistics curricula at universities and other schools

Statistics curricula at Italian
Universities and other schools
Antonio Giusti
Presentation outline
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The Italian Higher Education Reform
Some curricula in statistics
The primary and secondary education
Some remarks
The Italian Higher Education Reform
In the framework of the European university reform, the Italian
Higher Education system is undergoing a great transformation.
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May 1998: The Sorbonne Declaration
(signed by Italy, France, Germany and
the United Kingdom.
June 1999: The Bologna Declaration
(signed by 29 European countries).
The Italian Higher Education Reform
In the framework of the European university reform, the Italian
Higher Education system is undergoing a great transformation.
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The ministerial decree no. 509 of the 3rd
of November 1999.
A new ministerial decree, no. 270 of the
22nd of October 2004.
The Italian Higher Education Reform
The Italian Higher Education Reform is designed:
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to reduce the student drop-out rate and
university-career time;
to combine a high standard academic offer
with professional competence and skills;
to facilitate national and international student
mobility.
The Italian Higher Education Reform
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In Italy was already introduced a national
credit system following the ECTS (European
Credit Transfer System)
The student learning activities are valued as
CFU (University Formative Credits)
One CFU consists of 25 workload hours
One academic year corresponds to 60 CFUs.
The Italian Higher Education Reform
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Biotechnologies
22
Aviation and maritime navigation
2
Legal services
23
Visual arts, music, performing arts and fashion studies
3
Applied languages
24
Pharmacy
4
Architecture and construction engineering
25
Physics
5
Humanities
26
Computer Science
6
Social work
27
Environmental sciences
7
Town, regional and environmental planning
28
Economics and Administration
8
Engineering (building)
29
Philosophy
9
Engineering (electronic)
30
Geography
10
Engineering (industrial)
31
Law
11
Modern languages and civilisations
32
Mathematics
12
Biology
33
Sport sciences and physical education
13
Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage
34
Psychology
14
Communication
35
Co-operation, development and peace studies
15
Political sciences and international relations
36
Sociology
16
Earth sciences
37
Statistics
17
Business and management
38
History
18
Education
39
Tourism
19
Administration
40
Zoology
20
Agriculture, food industry and forestry
41
Cultural heritage studies
21
Chemistry
42
Industrial design
+ 5 new categories: DS1 (Defence and security), SNT1, SNT2, SNT3, SNT4 (Health professions)
The Italian Higher Education Reform
3-year degrees
37 Statistics
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47 categories
3+2 degrees
104 categories
90/s Demography and social statistics
91/s Economic and financial statistics
92/s Statistics for experimental research
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The Italian Higher Education Reform
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The EU has regulated University
education for a few professions.
In Italy these remain as a unique
course of 5 or 6 year:
• Medicine and Surgery (6 years),
• Veterinary Medicine (5 years),
• Dentistry and Prosthetic Dentistry (5 years),
• Pharmacy (5 years).
Degree in Statistics
5 faculties
I) 35 courses – II) 29 courses
I) 1345 1° year students
II) 262 1° year students
Some curricula in statistics
Degrees (3-years degrees, category: 37)
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Finance and insurance
Statistics
Statistics and computing
Statistics and computing technology
Statistics and management
Statistics and social research
Statistics, business and marketing
Statistics, economics and finance
Statistics, population and society
Some curricula in statistics
3+2 Degrees
 Population and society 90/S
 Statistics for economics, business and finance 90/S
 Statistics for the demographic and social sciences 91/S
 Statistics, insurance and finance 91/S
 Statistics and computing science 91/S
 Statistics and economics 91/S
 Business information systems 91/S
 Statistics 92/S
 Statistics and computing science 92/S
Some curricula in statistics
Master degrees
• i.e. Business analysis
Research doctorates (Ph.D.)
(Now Ph.D. School)
The primary and secondary education
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Statistics is included at every level of the Italian
educational system
In the secondary school the mathematical
curricula include “Elements of probability and
statistics” with these topics:
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random events, joint events and addition rule,
conditional probability, composed probability,
independent events and product rule
elements of descriptive statistics: data collection,
averages, variability indexes
The primary and secondary education
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Protocol among:
• MIUR (Ministry of Instruction, University and
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Research)
UMI (Italian Mathematical Union )
SIS (Italian Statistical Society)
signed in 1993, 1998 and 2002
The primary and secondary education
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CIRDIS is an Italian Interuniversity
Research Centre for Statistical
Education hosted by the Universities of
Padova, Palermo, Perugia and “Roma la
Sapienza”
The Centre has been constituted on
1991 with the general objective of
promoting the development of research
on statistical education in Italy
Some remarks
(on Statistical education in Italy)
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In theory is included at every level, but
there are no expert teachers almost
everywhere (excluding universities)
Few students in the statistical curricula
at University
Is considered a very difficult topics in the
other curricula
New changes in 2 years