Transcript THE ITALIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM

THE ITALIAN
SCHOOL SYSTEM
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THE ITALIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM CONSISTS OF
FOUR MAIN LEVELS:
NURSERY SCHOOL: 3-6 AGED PUPILS
PRIMARY SCHOOL: 6-11 AGED PUPILS
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL: 11-14 AGED
PUPPILS
UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL: 14-19 AGED PUPILS
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• In Italy there are state school and staterecognized school or private school at each level
of the education system.
• The main language is Italian, in some areas the use
of local language is authorized (French in Valle
d’Aosta, German and Ladin in Trentino Alto-Adige,
Slovenian in Friuli Venezia Giulia).
• The Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e
della Ricerca (Ministry of Education, University
and Research) is the responsible of the overall
school education and it is represented by the
Local Education Authorities (LEAs)
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• Law n. 59/1997, approved with Presidential Decree n.
275/1999, grants autonomy to all schools as concerns
teaching, organization, research, experimentation and
development.
• Legislative Decree n. 286/2004 sets up the Servizio
nazionale di valutazione del sistema educativo di istruzione e
formazione (National Service for the Evaluation and
Training System) with the task of improving the quality of
the Education System, through the evaluation of its
efficacy and efficiency also by following the dictates of the
international context.
• The Istituto Nazionale di valutazione del sistema educativo
di istruzione e formazione – INVALSI – (National Institute
for the Evaluation of the Education and Training System) is
entrusted with the national service.
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• At the end of Lower secondary school, which
completes the first school cycle, students take a
state examination to be admitted to the upper
secondary education level.
• Upper secondary schools are articulated in
several lines of education.
• Lyceum – Liceo classico (classical)
Liceo Scientifico (scientific)
Liceo Linguistico (linguistic)
Liceo socio-psico-pedagogico
(socio-psyco-pedagogical)
The lenght of each Lyceum is 5 years
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• Artistic Education – Liceo Artistico (artistic
Lyceum)-4/5
years
Istituti d’Arte (art schools)- 3/5 years
• Technical Education- Istituto Tecnico (technical
school)
5 years
(There are several different courses in Technical Education:
Building Surveying and Construction, Industrial,
Commercial, Administrative, Graphic Arts, Agricultural,
Tourism and Marketing, etc)
• Vocational Education - Istituto Professionale
(vocational school) 3/5 years
(There are several different courses in Vocational Education:
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• In Art and in Vocational Education, there is the
possibility, after 3 years, to get a first level
certification, that enables students to spend it in
working positions in the industry or handicraft.
• Students have the options to continue the
frequency for further two years and get a 5years certification.
• Students oral and written work is assessed every
three or four months. The school leaving
examination takes place at the end of 5- years
courses (Esame di Stato). The diploma has a legal
value in working field.
• In these last months the conduct mark was reintroduced as part of annual final evaluation for
each student. A bad mark in conduct could lead to
overall failure and repetition of that year of
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• The participation of parents in the
management of schools is regulated by Law
477/1973 and the following Decree
416/1974. This decree instituted the
Organi Collegiali (with the participation of
parents and high school students in Class,
School, District, Provincial meetings).
Currently, only Class and School Councils
are working in each school at every level of
school system. The District and Provincial
Councils have been abandoned, no election
has taken place for more than 10 years.
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Class Council, constituted by all teachers of the class, two parents
and two students, have the task to make proposal regarding
educational activities and experimentation, adoption of textbooks
and co-operation in educational goals. The election of parents and
students for Class Council tales place every year.
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School Council is constituted by the principal and eight teachers,
two non-teaching personnel, four parents and four students, all of
them elected every three years; the President of the Council is
elected among parents. The School Council has the task to manage
the whole life of the school, to deliberate on budget, school
regualations and rules, on educational activities, very often on
proposal made by Collegio dei Docenti (Teachers College), the
assembly of all teachers of school.
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• New decrees in these last years define a
different way to share education
responsability among all actors in schools.
• The “Statuto delle Studentesse e degli
Studenti nella Scuola Superiore” (Upper
Secondary Students Statute), instituted
by Decree n. 248/June 1998, leads to new
regulations in Upper Secondary School.
Each Institute has to define his own
regualtions which state rights and duties
of every subject in schools.
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• The “Patto educativo di corresponsabilità”
(Education Co-responsability Agreement),
instituted by Decree n. 235/nov. 2007, has to be
written by each school with the involvement of
teachers, students, parents, non-teaching school
personnel, all co-ordinated by the Principal. The
aim of the Agreement is to improve the idea of
school as community based on educational
relationship among all the subjects involved
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