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Problems with educational attainement by certain groups (drop out - fragmentation of educational experience)?

Code:
RED78
Key Area:
Education
Strand(s):
Discrimination, Equality
20/01/2012 - 13:30
Short Answer

Yes

Qualitative Info

A study conducted by the Cariplo Foundation, based on government data, on secondary school choices highlights that the different choices made by Italian and foreign students are strongly influenced by nationality, even when controlling for status and academic ability. There appears to be a specific discrimination towards foreign students, who are encouraged (and they themselves become inclined) to lower their educational ambitions, displaying higher school dropout rates or preferring schools with a more clearly vocational focus. Indeed, In the 2008/2009 a.y., 78.5% of foreign students attend technical and vocational institutes.

Considering the promotion rate, In terms of those who took the State diploma exam, during a.y. 2008/2009 foreign students born in Italy have a promotion rate of 98.2%, followed by Italians (97.8%) and by foreigners born elsewhere (95.5%). Moreover, 45.5% of foreign students born in Italy who obtained the diploma attended vocational (45.5%) and technical schools (20.4%). Among the rest of the foreign student population, a significant percentage is represented by students who obtained a technical institute diploma (39.1%) and a vocational school diploma (24.3%). Italian students, on the other hand, obtained primarily technical institute diplomas (33.4%) and scientific lyceum diplomas (25.5%).

Nonetheless, the percentage of foreign students enrolled in higher education, moreover, is slowly but constantly increasing. The Italian higher education system’s capacity to attract students from abroad, whilst still marginal on the international arena , seems to present a positive trend: in the 2007/2008 a.y. the total number of foreign students enrolled in the Italian higher education system was 51,803 (of which 60% are women),  which represents 2.9% of the total student population.


Source: Canino P. (a cura di), Stranieri si nasce e… si rimane? Differenziali nelle scelte scolastiche tra giovani italiani e stranieri, “Quaderni dell’Osservatorio”, n.3, Fondazione Cariplo

Cesareo (ed.), The Sixteenth Italian Report on Migrations 2010, McGraw-Hill

Nomisma (a cura di), L’immigrazione in Italia tra identità e pluralismo culturale, Ministero dell’Intrno, Dde Editrice, Roma, 2009.

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Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Education
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