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Italian Scholastic
System
In Italy the scholastic system is of a state
type, even if for every order and degree of school, private
institutes are available.
In 1997 with the reform of the education and formation system
the scholastic obligation had been raised up to 15 years of
age. Also a formative obligation had been introduced up to
18 years that can be accomplished through the scholastic system
of education, the system of the professional formation or
the apprenticeship.
In March 2003 a reform project that redefines the formative
obligation was approved and it is similar to the scholastic
obligation, founding the right - duty to the education and
to the formation for at least twelve years and, however, until
the achievement of a qualification within the eighteenth year
of age.
The secondary education is subdivided (after 14 years) in
just 2 paths, from one hand the high school education that
includes 8 big areas (artistic, classic, economical, linguistics,
musical and choreutical, scientific, technological and human
sciences), from the other hand the professional education
that includes the professional formation and the apprentice
work.
Moreover in our regulation the alternation school-work has
been introduced. The students between fifteen and eighteen
years of age that attend the system of the high schools or
the system of the professional education will be able to choose
this procedure of formation to acquire a direct knowledge
of the job world.
According to the reform, the system of education and formation
is characterized as follows:
|
Age |
Duration |
School level |
Fields |
Prospects |
| 2.5/3-5 years |
3 years |
School of childhood |
Unique obligatory Cycle |
Primary cycle |
| 5.5/6-13 years |
8 years |
Primary cycle (primary school and secondary
school of first degree) |
Unique obligatory Cycle |
State Examination: admission to the secondary
cycle |
| 14-18 years |
4 years |
Secondary cycle of Second obligatory degree |
High school education (artistic, classic,
economical, linguistics, musical and choreutical, scientific,
technological and human sciences) or professional Education
(professional formation or apprenticeship) |
Certification attesting the education achieved
or qualification: admission to high technical Formation
or admission to the last year of the secondary cycle or
work |
| 18-19 years |
1 years |
Secondary cycle of Second optional degree |
Deepening of the contents of the chosen
field |
State Examination of state and admission
to the university or admission to the high technical formation |
| Ever since 18 years |
3 years |
University or high technical Formation |
Varied specializations |
Three-year degree or work |
| 2 years |
University |
Varied specializations |
Specialized degree or work |
| After the Degree |
changeable |
Doctor's degree, specializations and first
and second level Master |
Various specializations |
Work |
The accomplishment of the reform
will be gradual. In the academic year 2005/06 the new regulations
have been carried out only for the schools of childhood and
for the primary schools, state and not state. In the secondary
schools of First degree the application of the new rules has
been partly realized. For the secondary schools of Second
degree and for the professional formation are still valid
the previous regulations, in which the subdivision included
High Schools, technical Institutes, professional Institutes
and professional Formation.
It is possible to have more information through the site http://www.miur.it/,
or contacting one of the 140 information centers distributed
on all of the territory of the European union that aim to
satisfy the first answers to any information request:
Advanced
education
University
The university system is carried out through a total of 76
institutes of university education that are organized as follows:
- 51 state university and 12 free university placed
on all the national territory;
- 3 state polytechnics (Bariums, Milan and Turin);
- 4 state university institutes (naval and oriental
in Naples, motor sciences in Rome, architecture in Venice)
and a private one (Naples);
- 2 University for foreign people (Perugia and Siena);
- 3 advanced schools (2 in Pisa and 1 in Trieste).
The enrolment start in the first
week of August and usually finish within October. Terms of
anticipated enrolment are previewed in case of courses with
entrance exams or for courses with semi-annual organization.
Information and forms are provided by the university secretary.
During the academic year 2001-02 the didactic reform of the
university course has come into force. The reform has been
applied to the first year of the new university courses. Therefore
in the Italian university the courses of the previous system,
that are about to be over, and the courses of the new system
coexist.
The
reform foretells the following educational qualifications:
- DEGREE (L) - You can obtain it at the end of a
course of triennial duration and you can have access to
it with the diploma of secondary school;
- SPECIALISTIC (LS) DEGREE - You can obtain it at
the end of a course of biennial duration, that has the objective
to provide the student with an education of advanced level.
You can have access to it with the triennial degree and,
in some cases, it is necessary also
to have study requirements and is verified the preparation
of the universities.
- SPECIALISTIC DEGREE IN UNIQUE CYCLE (LSU) - For
the courses regulated by norms of the European Union, that
do not preview triennial degree (medicine and surgery, medicine
veterinary, odontology and dental prosthesis, pharmacy,
chemistry and technology, architecture, building engineering
- architecture) are available specialistic degree at unique
cycle to which you can have access with the diploma of secondary
school;
- DIPLOMA OF SPECIALIZATION (DS) - You can obtain
it at the end of a specialization course, that has the objective
to provide the student with knowledge and abilities for
functions required in the exercise of particular professional
activities. It can be set up exclusively in application
of specific norms of law or directives of the European Union
(for example, medical specialities, legal professions, education
for teachers of secondary school). You can have access to
it with the specialistic degree;
- DOCTOR'S DEGREE (DR) - It has the objective to
provide the competences necessary in order to do, at university,
local authorities or private individuals, research activity
of high qualification. You can have access to it with the
specialistic degree or with a title obtained abroad and
considered suitable;
- UNIVERSITY MASTER - They are issued at the end
of a scientific proficiency course and of high permanent
and recurrent education by universities. They can be of
first or second level and can be attended after the triennial
degree or the specialistic degree.
A further innovation introduced
by the reform is the University Formative Credit that
is acquired after having passed the examination or other form
of assessments.
To the university formative credit corresponds 25 working
hours for the student.
The average work amount of learning carried out in a year
by a student kept busy with a full time formula at university
is conventionally fixed at 60 credits.
The necessary credits for the achievement of the certificates
issued by university are as follows:
- Degree (L), 180 credits, including those regarding
the compulsory knowledge of a language of the European Union
besides the Italian one;
- Specialistic degree (LS), 120 credits, apart from
those already got by the student with the degree and recognized
valid for the relative specialistic degree course;
- Specialistic degree at Unique Cycle (LSU), 300
credits, 360 just for the faculty of Medicine and surgery;
- Diploma of Specialization (DS), the number depends
on ministerial decrees and must be comprised between 300
and 600 credits, as well as those already obtained by the
student and recognized valid for the relative course of
specialization;
- University Master of I and II level, at least 60
credits besides those obtained in order to get the degree
or the specialistic degree.
In order to encourage the mobility of the students,
the access to further studies and to make the academic and
professional recognition of the Foreign certificates easier
in Europe, the European Union has created a certificate called
"supplement to the diploma" (http://www.murst.it/atti/2001/dm010530_01_all1.htm)
that is issued in bilingual edition by University. Besides
certificating the status of the studies carried out and completed
by the student is integrating of the official certificate
achieved at the end of a course of studies in an university
or an institute of advanced education. The supplement to the
diploma corresponds to the European model developed for initiative
of the European Commission, of the Council of Europe and of
Unesco and the issuing modalities arein compliance with the
didactic regulations.
It consists of eight sections: personal identifying data,
educational qualifications, level of the certificate, curriculum
and marks, functions of the certificate, additional information,
certification, description of the national system of advanced
education.
It is possible to find furher information regarding the course
and the academic activities of university and institutes of
advanced education inside the web site Universo
Ministry of the Education,
of the University and of the
Scientific Research (MIUR), set up in order to take up
young people interested in enrolling in university and in
helping them in the choice of the course of studies that most
responds to their interests. You can also find the list of
all the university boarding
schools legally recognized with information regarding
the location, the available places, the entrance criteria,
the costs, the possibilities to obtain the scholarships, the
services offered, including the didactic-cultural activities.
It has been prepared a reading system for blind students:
you can access to it from the starting page.
Information for foreign
people (city dweller)
All university institutions accept the enrolment of foreign
students. Each university fixes every year the number of places
available: such number is defined "contingent"
and is consultable on the web site of the Ministry
of University and also on the web site of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairi clicking on the voice foreign policy/
cultural promotion/university.
Students of the European Union are not liable to this limitation.
Foreign students must usually apply for enrolment
exclusively to a single degree's course at the Italian
representations in their native countries (the period of the
pre enrolments varies among April-May-June months). Every
year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issues relative
dispositions regarding the enrolment formalities of foreign
students and of the Italian students with educational qualifications
obtained abroad.
These dispositions regard in particular the application terms,
the filling in formalities, qualifications to present, calendars
and contents of the entamce exams, residence permit and entry
visa for study, and so on. It is necessary therefore to get
informed year by year on the precise current formalities.
You have to enclose to the application, in authenticated copy,
the following documents:
- final educational qualification of secondary studies
in original copy, or substitutive certificate according
to the law;
- pass certificate required for the access to University
in the native Country;
- diplomas of Italian language and culture obtained
at the University of Rome or at the University for foreign
people of Perugia or Siena, or certificates of expertise
in Italian language of the same Universities, issued by
Italian institutes of Culture abroad, in accordance with
a specific Convention with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
or certificates of attendance issued by other universities
that have set up courses also in convention with other formative
institutions, local authorities and regions.
Such certifications, in accordance with the single Universities'
independent decisions, can be useful certificates for getting
additional score with a view to being inserted in the list
of the qualified (in the case of certifications corresponding
to higher levels of competence).
Without it you are supposed to pass at each Faculty the
test aimed to assess the knowledge of the Italian language;
- 2 photographies of which one authenticated;
- document proving the insurance cover: without it,
you are supposed to enter into a suitable insurance cover
on your arrival in Italy, as declared in the application
form, namely to opt for the voluntary registration to the
National Health Service.
All the documents written up in foreign language are to
be accompanied by the official translation in Italian language.
The applications are transmitted by the diplomatic
Representations to the universities.
Usually starting from the month of August the candidate who
turns out to be inserted in the lists of the admitted to the
tests, even if "with reserve", can ask to the Italian
Representation for the entry visa for reasons of "study"
with a view to being able to take the entrance exam to
University. Such visa will have to be presented to the competent
Police headquarters or by post offices within eight days from the entrance in
Italy in order to obtain the corresponding residence permit.
The issue of the residence permit, however, is subordinated
to the demonstration of economic security.
The simple application for a scholarship of the Italian
Government does not constitute document of economic cover.
Moreover the foreign student should indicate the existence
of a suitable accommodation in the national territory, let
alone the availability of the sum necessary for the repatriation,
demonstrable also with the presentation of the return ticket.
The Communitarian Citizens and the non-EEC national legally
living in Italy, can personally present the enrolment application
directly to the Foreign Offices available in every University,
provided that the educational qualifications have been authenticated,
(translated and legalized) by the consular Representations
competent for territory in the State the educational qualifications
refer to.
Foreign people are allowed to have access to university courses
all things being equal with the Italian students:
- holder of residence paper, or of residence permit for subordinated
or independent job, familiar reasons, and so on;
- people regularly living since at least a year having a diploma
of advanced study obtained in Italy;
- wherever residents, but that they are holders of final diplomas
of Italian schools abroad or of foreign or international schools,
bilateral agreements or special norms for the recognition
of the educational qualifications and that satisfy the general
conditions requested for the entry for study reasons.
Recognition
of educational qualifications
Each University provides, through the Foreign
Office, information on the formalities for the recognition
of the educational qualifications. As an alternative there
is the NARIC net
- National Academic Recognition Information Centres - where
it is possible to have information about the equivalence of
the educational qualifications.
For Italy the Information Centre on Academic Mobility and
Equivalences is a service of the Rui Foundation.
The CIMEA information service is carried out daily
by letter; it is possible also to telephone or to ask for
a personal talk (on appointment), on Monday or on Tuesday,
from 9.00 to 13.00.
- CIMEA Information Centre on Mobility and Academic
Equivalences of the Rui Foundation:
http://www.cimea.it/
viale XXI Aprile 36 - 00162 Roma - tel. +3906/86321281 fax:
+3906/863.22.845
E-mail: cimea@fondazionerui.it
In the page dedicated to the University, inside
the web site of Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and of Ministry
of Education, of
the University and of Research
, you can find indications for the enrolment of foreign students
to university courses and the information on the bilateral
and multilateral agreements on the recogniton of the educational
qualifications.
The updated addresses of Italian Universities are available
on the web site http://sito.cineca.it/strutture/struttura.html
of the Ministry of the Education, of the University and of
the Research in collaboration with the CINECA.
Scholarships for foreign
people
The economic aid to students, both citizens
of the European Union and non communitarians, can be subdivided
in two categories:
a) direct aid (scholarships, loans, partial or total
exemptionfrom university taxes, and so on), generally addressed
to students who are in possession of particular requirement
of age, of income and merit
(http://universo.murst.it/borse.html);
b) indirect aid under the form of services (accomodation,
refectory, cultural and sport activities,and so on), offered
at a price inferior to the market cost and, in some regions,
differentiated for income bands
(http://universo.murst.it/collegi.html).
In the last case students must possess particular requirements
of age, regularity in the studies and income.
Such services are supplied by the agencies for the right to
study, by universities (both directly and in compliance with
conventions with external agencies) and by private and public
bodies.
It is possible to find the complete list of the Agencies
for the Right to Study inside the site http://www.miur.it/UserFiles/756.pdf
or http://www.miur.it/UserFiles/755.rtf:
- MIUR Ministry of Education, University and Research:
http://www.miur.it/
U.R.S.T. Office for Relations with the Public, Communication
and Pubblications
piazzale Kennedy, 20 - 00144 Roma - tel. +3906/59912360
- +3906/59912357
E-mail: urp@murst.it
Supplying Agencies
Among the agencies that supply scholarships to university
students we point out:
- Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: http://www.esteri.it
The Ministry of Italian Foreign Affairs supplies scholarships
through the Ministries of respective foreign countries to
foreign and Italian citizens living abroad. The scholarships
are granted in order to carry out studies or researches:
- University
- Academies, Conservatories
- Institutes of Restoration
- National School of Cinematography
- Centers or Laboratories of research
- Libraries, archives , museums and other institutions.
The candidates will have to apply to the Italian Diplomatic
Representations in their Country, for the addresses consult:
http://www.esteri.it
- European Union: http://europa.eu.int/
The European Union grants scholarships through the Socrates
program in the fields Erasmus, Lingua and Comenius; the
programs Alpha, Tempus; the programs of cooperation with
Canada and USA and, moreover, the pilot projects of cooperation
with Australia and Japan.
Information on the projects in the site of the UE http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/index_en.html;
the addresses of the National Agencies in different Countries
to the address http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/info/contact/index_it.htm
- National Research Council: http://www.cnr.it/
URP Office Relations with the Public
piazzale Aldo Moro n. 7 - 00185 Roma - tel. +3906/49932019
- +3906/49933077
dal lunedì al venerdì dalle ore 09.00 alle ore 18.30
E-mail: urp@urp.cnr.it
National agency of Research with general scientific competence
and scientific institutes scattered on the territory, that
carries out activities of priority interest for the advancement
of science and the progress of the Country. Through personal
programs of research and scholarships awarding, it carries
out activity of education in university courses of research
doctorate, activity of high post-university education, permanent,
continual, recurrent education.
It can also carry out activities of advanced education which
has nothing to do with university.
1) the NOOPOLIS data
base, that in Italy operates on-line, collects information
on study opportunity, education and research available in
Italy and abroad in all the disciplines for students and scholars
of whichever nationality. The information present in the database
are constantly updated. The Data base is consultable by students
and graduated people free of charge just turning to one of
the numerous information points (see the Web Site)
of University, Youth Centres and other Agencies subscribed
to the data base in Italy and abroad (Argentina and Hungary).
2) the guide STUDY ABROAD,
published by Unesco, in three languages (English, French,
Spanish) collects every two years the international ban of
scholarships and further financial resources offered by the
countries members.
- UNESCO: http://www.unesco.org/
7, Place de Fontenoy - 75352 Paris 07 SP (France) - internazional
tel.: +331/45681000
3) the GAZZETTA UFFICIALE DELLA
REPUBBLICA ITALIANA (OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Of THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC
CONTAINING THE TEXT OF NEW LAWS): http://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/index.jsp
Official publication of the Italian State, contains all what
Italian Institutions or Public agencies offer to students,
graduated people and scholars as regards scholarships. Consultable
in the main libraries or buyable at specialistic newspaper
stands and bookstores. In the site it is possible to consult
the G.U. published in the last 60 days.
Italian
courses for Foreign People
Inside the site of the Ministry
of Foreign Affair it is possible to have the addresses
and the activities of the Italian Institutes of culture abroad:
besides the organization of cultural events in various fields
(art, music, cinema, theatre, dance, fashion, design, photography),
the Italian Institutes of Culture offer the opportunity, to
those who wish it, to get to know the language and the Italian
culture, through the organization of courses, the management
of libraries and the offer of didactic and editorial material.
Courses of Italian language for Italian foreign students generally
organized in Italy by the Linguistic Centers of the different
Universities and also by the university foreign people:
In Italy courses of Italian language are also
organized by:
- Società ("Society") Dante Alighieri:http://www.soc-dante-alighieri.it/
piazza Firenze, 27 - 00186 Roma - tel. +3906/6873694/95
fax: +3906/6873685
E-mail: progetto.lingua@flashnet.it
Moral Agency, founded in 1889, with the task of protecting
and diffusing the Italian language and culture in the world
- Academy of Italian Fashion and Design: http://www.linguaitaliana.org/
piazza Pitti, 15 - 50125 Firenze - tel. +39055/284616-211619
fax: +39055/284486
E-mail: inform@accademiaitaliana.com
International School founded in 1984. It is operative internationally
as European institute of artistic and professional education
that prepares designers in the field of fashion,interior
decoration and textile design.
- Giacomo Puccini Centre - italian language school: http://www.centropuccini.it/ImparareItaliano/imparare_italiano.html
Via Vespucci 173 55049 Viareggio Tel. 0584 430253 Fax 0584 961275
E-mail: info@centropuccini.it
Italian language school to Viareggio, in Tuscany, to the sea, offers courses for foreign people. Learn italian while learning the italian culture. School recognized of Ministry of Education.
- Istituto Linguistico Mediterraneo: http://www.ilm.it
Via C. Battisti 3 - 56100 Pisa - tel. +39050/500399 fax +39050/48157
Italian language school in Tuscany, offers courses for foreign people. Learn italian while learning the italian culture. During summer, offers courses at Viareggio.
School recognized of Ministry of Education.
- Italian Study Centre: http://www.centrostuditaliani.org/
via Boscarini, 1 - 61049 Urbania (PS) - tel. +390722/318950
- +390722/317054 fax: +390722/317286
E-mail: urbania@centrostuditaliani.org
The centre has started its activity in 1986 as school of
Italian language and culture for international students.
It organizes courses of Italian language and culture in
whichever part of the world.
- Leonardo da Vinci School : http:\\www.scuolaleonardo.com
Central Marketing Office - via Brunelleschi, 4 - 50123 Firenze
- tel. +39055/290305 fax +39055/290396
E-mail: scuolaleonardo@scuolaleonardo.com
Italian language school located in Milano, Florence, Rome,
Siena, Italy, offers semester and summer study abroad programs.
Take courses in language, arts, and humanities with transferable
college credits. Learn italian while learning the italian
culture.
Or course on line with
- RAI International - Italica: http://www.italica.rai.it/principali/lingua/comune.htm
Internet editorial office
via Teulada 66 - 00195 Roma - fax. +3906/33170973
E-mail: italica@rai.it
Italica was born in 1996 under the Direction of RAI International
with the institutional objective to diffuse and to promote
also in Internet the knowledge of the Italian language and
culture. The didactic activity, with the assistance of a
tutor, is carried out entirely on-line, with a final test
at Institutes and Schools of Italian language abroad or
in other agreed agencies.
You can find a list of private
Institutes in Italy where it is possible to attend courses
of Italian language for foreign people inside the site http://www.iluss.it/.
- ILUSS - Italian
Language Update School Service
via Boccaccio 44/B - 50133 Firenze - tel. +39055/578620
- +39328/3913210
fax: +39055/5058391
E-mail: info@iluss.it - segreteria@iluss.it
A no profit-making organization that promotes the Italian
language and culture in the world. It offers to the ones
who study or teach Italian online free access to grammar
units, to readings and to the respective interactive exercises.
- ICON - Italian Culture on the Net http://www.italicon.it/
The ICoN Consortium, composed of 24 Italian Universities,
promotes the language and the Italian culture in the world
through a didactic portal of Italian language and culture,
that gives the possibility to attend a course of Italian
language and to get a degree on the net (officially recognized
and with full legal value) in "Language and Italian
culture for foreign people".
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