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INDIRE
National Institute of
Documentation for
Innovation and Educational
Research
Florence, 11 december 2006
THE ITALIAN
EDUCATION SYSTEM
By Italian Eurydice Unit
www.indire.it/eurydice
Central Level Administration:
MPI - Ministry of Public Education
MiUR - Ministry of University and Research
The Central Level Administration has the
following tasks:
guidance, planning, monitoring
MPI is responsible for:
 general organisation of school education;
provision of an essential level of vocational education
and training;
legal status of teaching staff;
determination of financial resources to the schools;
evaluation of the school system.
Local Administration
REGIONAL SCHOOL
OFFICES
carry out administration management
through the ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CENTRES (CSA)
School Level Administration
SCHOOL AUTONOMY (Law 59/97
Decree 275/99)
teaching autonomy
SCHOOLS are
granted
organisation autonomy
research,
experimentation and
development
autonomy
Each school develops its own
‘Plan of Educational Offer’ (POF)
‘PLAN OF EDUCATIONAL OFFER’ (POF)
“… fundamental document on the cultural and planning
identity of the schools…”
The POF, developed by the Teachers’ Assembly, provides
the educational objectives of the school and its
compulsory curriculum made up of a part established at
national level and a part established by the school.
FIRST SCHOOL CYCLE
PRIMARY SCHOOL: 5 years
+
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL: 3 years
State exam at the end of the first school cycle
PRIMARY SCHOOL
National guidelines for personalised study plans, have
replaced the old programs since 2004/2005
SUBJECTS:
 Italian
 ICT
 English
 Music
 Mathematics
 Arts
 Sciences
 Motory and sports sciences
 History
 Catholic religion
 Geography
+ Civil coexistence education
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL
The National guidelines for personalised study
plans foresee the following SUBJECTS:
Italian
Second foreign language
History
Arts
Geography
Music
Mathematics
Motory and sports sciences
Sciences and technology
Religion
English
+ Civil coexistence education
SECOND SCHOOL CYCLE
LICEO CLASSICO/LICEO
SCIENTIFICO/LINGUISTICO/
SOCIO-PEDAGOGICO
LICEO ARTISTICO
ISTITUTO D’ARTE
ISTITUTI TECNICI
ISTITUTI PROFESSIONALI
5 YEARS
4 YEARS + 1
additional year
3 YEARS + 2
YEARS
5 YEARS
3 YEARS + 2 YEARS
ICT POLICIES

2004/2005 school year: the ICT literacy starts at the
first class of primary school

Since 1997, support measures to ICT use at school have
been developed as follows:
1.
1997-2000: PSTD – Plan for the Development of
Educational Technologies: financial effort for the ICT
equipment in all schools
2.
Since 2002: ForTIC Plan: ICT literacy for about
200.000 teachers
Objectives
Target groups
Institutional network
established by the European
Commission to boost
cooperation, by improving
understanding systems and
policies in education
Activities
All those involved in the
provision of education and
policy-makers
EURYDICE
data base and monographs on
the European education
systems;
Cooperation with
other partners
 Eurostat
 Cedefop
comparative studies on specific  ETF
 European Agency for
topics of Community interest;
Development in Special Needs
indicators e statistics;
Education,
Council of Europe, OECD,
terminological instruments.
UNESCO.
DESCRIPTIONS OF EDUCATION SYSTEMS
 Eurybase – data base on the European
education systems
 Structures of education, initial training and
adult education systems in Europe
National summary sheets on education
systems in Europe and ongoing reforms
In: www.eurydice.org