Statistics curricula at Italian Universities and other schools

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Statistics curricula at Italian Universities and
other schools
Antonio Giusti
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Presentation outline

• The Italian Higher Education Reform
• Some curricula in statistics
• The primary and secondary education
• Some remarks

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The Italian Higher Education Reform
In the framework of the European university
reform, the Italian Higher Education system is
undergoing a great transformation.

• May 1998 The Sorbonne Declaration (signed by
  Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
• June 1999 The Bologna Declaration (signed by 29
  European countries).

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The Italian Higher Education Reform
In the framework of the European university
reform, the Italian Higher Education system is
undergoing a great transformation.

• The ministerial decree no. 509 of the 3rd of
  November 1999.
• A new ministerial decree, no. 270 of the 22nd of
  October 2004.

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The Italian Higher Education Reform

• The Italian Higher Education Reform is designed
• to reduce the student drop-out rate and
  university-career time
• to combine a high standard academic offer with
  professional competence and skills
• to facilitate national and international student
  mobility.

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The Italian Higher Education Reform

• In Italy was already introduced a national credit
  system following the ECTS (European Credit
  Transfer System)
• The student learning activities are valued as CFU
  (University Formative Credits)
• One CFU consists of 25 workload hours
• One academic year corresponds to 60 CFUs.

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The Italian Higher Education Reform

(300)
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1 Biotechnologies
2 Legal services
3 Applied languages
4 Architecture and construction engineering
5 Humanities
6 Social work
7 Town, regional and environmental planning
8 Engineering (building)
9 Engineering (electronic)
10 Engineering (industrial)
11 Modern languages and civilisations
12 Biology
13 Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage
14 Communication
15 Political sciences and international relations
16 Earth sciences
17 Business and management
18 Education
19 Administration
20 Agriculture, food industry and forestry
21 Chemistry
22 Aviation and maritime navigation
23 Visual arts, music, performing arts and fashion studies
24 Pharmacy
25 Physics
26 Computer Science
27 Environmental sciences
28 Economics and Administration
29 Philosophy
30 Geography
31 Law
32 Mathematics
33 Sport sciences and physical education
34 Psychology
35 Co-operation, development and peace studies
36 Sociology
37 Statistics
38 History
39 Tourism
40 Zoology
41 Cultural heritage studies
42 Industrial design
5 new categories DS1 (Defence and security),
SNT1, SNT2, SNT3, SNT4 (Health professions)
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The Italian Higher Education Reform

• 3-year degrees 47 categories
• 37 Statistics
• 32 degrees 104 categories
• 90/s Demography and social statistics
• 91/s Economic and financial statistics
• 92/s Statistics for experimental research

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The Italian Higher Education Reform

• The EU has regulated University education for a
  few professions.
• In Italy these remain as a unique course of 5 or
  6 year
• Medicine and Surgery (6 years),
• Veterinary Medicine (5 years),
• Dentistry and Prosthetic Dentistry (5 years),
• Pharmacy (5 years).

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Degree in Statistics
5 faculties I) 35 courses II) 29 courses I)
1345 1 year students II) 262 1 year students
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Some curricula in statistics

• Degrees (3-years degrees, category 37)
• Finance and insurance
• Statistics
• Statistics and computing
• Statistics and computing technology
• Statistics and management
• Statistics and social research
• Statistics, business and marketing
• Statistics, economics and finance
• Statistics, population and society

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Some curricula in statistics

• 32 Degrees
• Population and society 90/S
• Statistics for economics, business and finance
  90/S
• Statistics for the demographic and social
  sciences 91/S
• Statistics, insurance and finance 91/S
• Statistics and computing science 91/S
• Statistics and economics 91/S
• Business information systems 91/S
• Statistics 92/S
• Statistics and computing science 92/S

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Some curricula in statistics

• Master degrees
• i.e. Business analysis
• Research doctorates (Ph.D.)
• (Now Ph.D. School)

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The primary and secondary education

• Statistics is included at every level of the
  Italian educational system
• In the secondary school the mathematical
  curricula include Elements of probability and
  statistics with these topics
• random events, joint events and addition rule,
  conditional probability, composed probability,
  independent events and product rule
• elements of descriptive statistics data
  collection, averages, variability indexes

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The primary and secondary education

• Protocol among
• MIUR (Ministry of Instruction, University and
  Research)
• UMI (Italian Mathematical Union )
• SIS (Italian Statistical Society)
• signed in 1993, 1998 and 2002

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The primary and secondary education

• CIRDIS is an Italian Interuniversity Research
  Centre for Statistical Education hosted by the
  Universities  of Padova, Palermo, Perugia and
  Roma la Sapienza
• The Centre has been constituted on 1991 with the
  general objective of promoting the development of
  research on statistical education in Italy

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Some remarks(on Statistical education in Italy)

• In theory is included at every level, but there
  are no expert teachers almost everywhere
  (excluding universities)
• Few students in the statistical curricula at
  University
• Is considered a very difficult topics in the
  other curricula
• New changes in 2 years