Yesterday, the government gave the green light to the bill that reforms technical and professional institutes and considers the revision of regulations relating to the assessment of students’ behavior at school. «A long-awaited turning point for Italian society», defined it as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, explaining, regarding the technical-professional reform, that «it is a reform that makes the technical and professional education chain competitive, transforming it on a path of training Series A and connecting it with the world of work and business”. «We thus offer important job opportunities to our young people and make our production system more competitive», explained Meloni. And, «with the reform from the conduct note and suspension, we bring back the culture of respect in schools,
What concretely changes? With the Valditara Reform, the new «technological-professional training chain» was inaugurated with the aim of involving, from a «campus» perspective, offering more study paths to students through broad flexibility both in teaching and on the organizational front – technical institutes, State professionals, Higher Technical Education and Training courses, the regional Vocational Education and Training system and its Academy, that is, schools of excellence with high post-diploma technological specialization that allow obtaining the title senior technician. The project will begin on an experimental basis from 2024/25. The main points: four-year courses plus two additional years will be introduced at Your Academy (the so-called 4+2 model), largely relaunching, essentially, the experimentation of secondary education in four years (and no longer in five). ) began – in fact, only in theory – with former minister Valeria Fedeli.
The basic subjects will be reinforced and specialized external teachers from different professional backgrounds will be included. Internationalization will be encouraged. The close connection to work will mainly involve the use of first-level training internships (for students aged 15 or over). With the review of the rules for evaluating children’s behavior at school, however, the conduct grade is also reestablished in primary and secondary education and, with 6, debts are triggered to be recovered in civic education through the presentation of work ( therefore one will be postponed to September). If it happens in the fifth year, the essay will be taken to Maturity. It goes without saying that a score below 6 in conduct will result in the student automatically failing or not being admitted to the State Exam. Suspension activation methods also change. «Italy – highlighted the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, is the second industrial country in Europe: according to data from Unioncamere Excelsior, from mechatronics to information technology, at least 508 thousand workers will be needed between now and 2027. But Confindustria estimates that 48% of these will be difficult to find. The approved decree aims to transform these alarming numbers into a great opportunity for our young people.”
«Italy – highlighted the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, is the second industrial country in Europe: according to data from Unioncamere Excelsior, from mechatronics to information technology, at least 508 thousand workers will be needed between now and 2027. But Confindustria estimates that 48% of these will be difficult to find. The approved decree aims to transform these alarming numbers into a great opportunity for our young people.” «Italy – highlighted the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, is the second industrial country in Europe: according to data from Unioncamere Excelsior, from mechatronics to information technology, at least 508 thousand workers will be needed between now and 2027. But Confindustria estimates that 48% of these will be difficult to find. The approved decree aims to transform these alarming numbers into a great opportunity for our young people.” The approved decree aims to transform these alarming numbers into a great opportunity for our young people.”
Source: IL Tempo
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