Italy implements eight-year compulsory education.
In Italy, education is more valued. At present, Italy implements eight-year compulsory education, five years in primary school and three years in junior high school, and children enter school at the age of six; Three-year junior high school system, free of charge? Admission with a primary school diploma. The courses offered in junior high school are: religion, Italian, history, geography, foreign languages, mathematics and natural sciences, technical education, art, music and physical education, with a total of 30 class hours per week. The curriculum goal of junior high school focuses on developing students' logical, scientific and practical abilities, as well as their ability to understand the whole society from multiple angles, so as to help students learn to choose in life. Eight years compulsory education, student 14 years old. When they reach the age of choosing the future, there are generally three destinations: promotion, vocational training or employment. High schools are divided into ordinary middle schools (including liberal arts middle schools and science middle schools), vocational middle schools and technical middle schools. Italy's junior high school curriculum is generally incomplete, and there is a lack of educational guidance and consulting subjects for students in the curriculum. The lack of connection between junior high school curriculum and senior high school curriculum seems to be deaf and indifferent to how to set up the curriculum in senior high school, and it can not provide effective information and full help for how to learn senior high school curriculum in the future. Italy's high school education is seriously divided. 14 junior high school graduates are faced with a dazzling choice after completing non-selective junior high school education, whether to enter liberal arts middle school, science middle school, technical middle school, vocational middle school, or senior secondary normal school, intermediate normal school and art high school. Even if you choose a school, not everything is fine, but you should choose a different course track for your major. This choice may be fixed for life, which determines the future direction of life. It is really too difficult for children who are only 14 years old. 1992, Italian high schools absorbed about 75% of junior high school graduates, but 13 high school students were eliminated in the first three years, and the number of people who finally got high school diplomas was less than half of all junior high school graduates in that year. The reason for the increase in the number of dropouts is economic difficulties, and some students are unable to pay higher tuition fees; Another important reason is that students are disappointed with their majors.