(Finance) – More controls, also through the financial police, but above all an extraordinary supervisory plan For combat the phenomenon of diploma mills in schools. The Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, announced “the intensification of controls by the inspection bodies. The latter are ascertaining, in particular in some areas of Campania, Lazio and Sicily, the possession of the legal requirements for the recognition and maintenance of school status equal”. While on the legislative front “we are working on measures that avoid the reproduction of distortions in the system”.
The assessment of possession of the legal requirements for the recognition and maintenance of the status of private school is carried out on various fronts “verifying that students regularly attend educational activities, that administrative and accounting procedures are respected, that the educational paths foreseen by the school system are activated and that regular employment contracts have been signed for ATA teachers and staff”.
A series of ready regulatory measures are also being presented, as part of a forthcoming government bill, such as “the adoption of the electronic register and protocol to certify student attendance and prevent earlier registration of registrations that occur subsequently, the numerical limitation on the establishment of collateral fifth classes – with the regulation, moreover, of a specific authorization procedure with certain terms – the identification of the minimum number of students for the establishment of the classes of the various years of the course and the carrying out suitability exams for no more than two years of the course in the same school year, with the provision of a president of the examination commission external to the school”.
In the end, it will no longer be possible to “recover three or four years of secondary school with a single examas is often advertised online”. To all this, we add the imminent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Guardia di Finanza which has the aim of strengthening investigation activities. “These are fundamental interventions and cannot be postponed, which will allow us to enhance the role of the many private schools that operate correctly within the national education system”, concludes Valditara.