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Identification of students’ at risk

Guideline for Policy Makers

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Early school leaving refers to stopping school attendance, dropping out of the educational system, regardless of the level reached, before getting a qualification or well rounded professional training or before graduating. From an economic point of view, early school leaving represents an indicator of the educational system efficiency, so that the higher the early school leaving rate, the less effective the educational system in question is.
The approach to the phenomenon consists in drawing a strategy of curricular and extracurricular programs and projects aimed at raising school attendance level and facilitating inclusion of those who initially drop out of school. The main institutions in charge with achieving and implementing these strategies are the ministry of education, the school inspectorates, local public administrations, i.e. the policy makers. In order to set up the strategy for reducing early school leaving, the institutions in charge – policy makers, will undertake sociological research on the early school leaving phenomenon in the areas of interest and will identify the causes that lead to the occurrence of the risk of early school leaving.

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20 December 2014

Final Partners’ meeting

The fourth partners’ meeting took place in Florence (IT) on 15 December 2014. The meeting had the objective to check the activities carried out since the third meeting of the project and share and assess the in progress results. A special focus has been dedicated to the presentation of the strategies to solve the case scenarios.