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03 April 2020Only 'remote' oral exam via web. This will be the high school exam for this school year if students do not return to class by May 18th. This is provided for by the provision containing the 'Urgent measures for State exams and the evaluation of the current school year', developed by the Ministry of Education, which should be approved by the Council of Ministers.

In the case of return to the classroom, the second test will be prepared by the commissions, which are internal with only one external member, the president. The school-work alternation will not be required to access the exam, but the experiences gained in the paths for transversal skills and orientation are still part of the interview. Furthermore, the Invalsi test will not be an admission criterion. In any case, the number of hours of attendance, training debts and disciplinary sanctions will not be taken into account. The middle school exams were very simplified, which in the case of continuing for a long time the Coronavirus emergency could foresee the elimination of one or more tests or the modulation of the modalities for assigning the final mark up to the replacement of the exam with the final assessment by the class council.

As for the intermediate classes, if the teaching activity in schools resumes by May 18, the provision provides for the definition of the possible recovery of learning in all cycles during the following school year starting from 1 / o of September 2020, as ordinary teaching activity. So no rejection seems to be expected at the end of this school year. Educational trips, exchange or twinning initiatives, guided tours and educational trips are suspended until the end of the school year. And again: the starting date of the lessons, the next school year, may be redefined, in agreement with the State-Regions Conference, "also taking into account the possible need to recover learning"; the role entry procedures must be completed by 15 September.

Finally, the Ministry of Education will be able to ban competition procedures for teaching and educational staff, without prejudice to the restrictions and limits regarding the conduct of tests. The measures are independent of the opinion of the CSPI (Higher Education Public Council). "Now that the forced break from school in presence is getting longer we want to put in place new tools to support teachers and students. We will adopt an overall plan that can guide the School in continuing this school year and looking to the next. In concert with all the political forces that make up the majority ", Education Minister Lucia Azzolina wrote in the afternoon on fb. Trade unions are crying for other measures and a "wider opportunity for discussion".