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INDIRE National Institute of Documentation for
Innovation and Educational Research Florence,
11 december 2006
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THE ITALIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM By Italian
Eurydice Unit www.indire.it/eurydice
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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.

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Local Administration

REGIONAL SCHOOL OFFICES
carry out administration management through the
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CENTRES (CSA)
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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)
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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.
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FIRST SCHOOL CYCLE

PRIMARY SCHOOL 5 years


LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL 3 years

State exam at the end of the first school cycle
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PRIMARY SCHOOL

National guidelines for personalised study plans,
have replaced the old programs since
2004/2005 SUBJECTS

• Italian
• English
• Mathematics
• Sciences
• History
• Geography

• ICT
• Music
• Arts
• Motory and sports sciences
• Catholic religion

Civil coexistence education
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LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL

The National guidelines for personalised study
plans foresee the following SUBJECTS

• Italian
• History
• Geography
• Mathematics
• Sciences and technology
• English

• Second foreign language
• Arts
• Music
• Motory and sports sciences
• Religion

Civil coexistence education
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SECOND SCHOOL CYCLE
LICEO CLASSICO/LICEO SCIENTIFICO/LINGUISTICO/SOCIO
-PEDAGOGICO

5 YEARS

4 YEARS 1 additional year
LICEO ARTISTICO

ISTITUTO DARTE
3 YEARS 2 YEARS

ISTITUTI TECNICI
5 YEARS

ISTITUTI PROFESSIONALI
3 YEARS 2 YEARS
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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
• 1997-2000 PSTD Plan for the Development of
• Educational Technologies financial effort for
  the ICT
• equipment in all schools
• Since 2002 ForTIC Plan ICT literacy for about
• 200.000 teachers

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Objectives
Target groups
Institutional network established by the European
Commission to boost cooperation, by improving
understanding systems and policies in education
All those involved in the provision of education
and policy-makers
EURYDICE
Cooperation with other partners
Activities

• data base and monographs on the European
  education systems
• comparative studies on specific topics of
  Community interest
• indicators e statistics
• terminological instruments.

• Eurostat
• Cedefop
• ETF
• European Agency for Development in Special Needs
  Education,
• Council of Europe, OECD, UNESCO.

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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