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School enrolments will only be made possible online.<\/span><\/strong> The digitisation era takes a step forward. Starting from January, 21st<\/strong>, school enrolments will be made possible only online, by filling in the application forms on the following website: www.iscrizioni.istruzione.it<\/strong>. This initiative was taken after its launch last year, slowly letting schools and parents to adjust.<\/u> This was decreed by the ministerial memorandum n° 96 of December, 17th<\/sup> 2012 in<\/span> which the Ministry set a guideline concerning school enrolments for the next academic year. The deadline is set on February, 28th 2013. <\/strong>However, the future schools to be chosen (or the former ones), will have to offer a support service to families without any computer devices. <\/span><\/u><\/span><\/p>\nOn the whole, the memorandum <\/span>follows what was already stipulated last year, the only variation is that no exceptions are made for Comprehensive schools where, in the past, enrolments were made as a matter of course, whereas starting from January, 21st<\/sup> they will have to follow the memorandum and have them done online: "however, it is understood, that students coming from a primary school of the same Comprehensive school building have the priority over students coming from other schools "<\/span><\/p>\n In the meanwhile, the Italian National Statistical Institute – Istat published some worrying figures, the number of high-school and university students keeps on dropping. <\/span><\/p>\n The students enrolled in 2010 were 8,965,822, about 2,200 less than the previous year,<\/span><\/strong> and this for the third year in a row. The highest drop is associated to high-school students (-24,145). <\/span>The schooling rate remains around one hundred per cent for primary and middle schools, whereas high schools are experiencing a constant slow-down, from 92.3% in 2009\/2010 to 90%. <\/span>High school curricular careers remain difficult<\/span><\/strong> (the number of students failing their courses amounts to 7%), in fact the main selection is made after the first year where the percentage of student fails goes up to 19.1%.<\/span><\/p>\n Last but not least, the number of students enrolling at university in 2010\/2011 amounted to 288,000, that is about 6,400 less than the year before (-2.2%). <\/span><\/strong>The negative trend which started in 2004\/2005, is therefore confirmed. The number of new enrolments is even lower then the one registered in the 90’s.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ministry established the deadline to submit the school enrolment applications on February, 28th. In the meantime, the number of high-school students keeps on dropping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n