Articles: Education
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Private Schools in Italy
Standards, learning methods and prices
Private schools educate less than 10 per cent of Italian schoolchildren. They include schools run by religious organisations, schools following unorthodox teaching methods such as Montessori and Rudolf Steiner, and a number of foreign and international schools, including American and British schools.
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State Schools in Italy
Organization and education policies
State-funded schools in Italy are termed both state schools ( scuole statali) and public schools ( scuole pubbliche), although the term ‘state’ has been used in preference to ‘public’ in this book to prevent confusion with the British term ‘public school’, which refers to a private, fee-paying school.
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Italian Schools
An overview
Whether you wish your children to follow the Italian system of education or go to an international school is a very personal choice and depends on the age of the child, how long you plan to stay in Italy, where the child will study next and on your view as to the benefit of learning Italian in the local system.
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