← Back to the rankingIstituto di Istruzione Superiore Europa Unita
Chivasso, Italy · est. 2001 · State
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The Europa Unita institute is a state upper secondary school in Chivasso near Turin, created in 2001-2002 by merging the Europa Unita teacher-training school and the Leonardo Da Vinci technical institute. Today it has a liceo area - liceo linguistico, liceo delle scienze umane and its economic and social option - and a technical area: mechanics, mechatronics and energy, and computing and telecommunications. About 1300 students attend and about 160 teachers work there. The main language of instruction is Italian. The liceo linguistico has three courses: course A with the ESABAC Italian-French double diploma, course B with Cambridge IGCSE subjects in English - Travel & Tourism in grades 1-2 and Mathematics in grades 3-4 - and course C. The school is an authorised Cambridge school and a Cambridge English exam preparation centre, belongs to the Goethe-Institut Deutsch Plus programme of German-teaching schools and works with the Confucius Institute of the University of Turin.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish, Latin
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. The school asks families for a small voluntary contribution whose amount it gives without a figure. For each Cambridge IGCSE exam families pay the Cambridge fee, about 100 EUR; the website mentions no separate charge for course B. State school taxes are paid in grades 4-5.
Admissions Grade 1 enrolment follows the state online procedure; in summer, after the lower secondary final exam, enrolment is confirmed with a form and documents (leaving certificate, guidance advice, report card, identity documents and tax codes) by 12 July. Course B with IGCSE requires very good English, and a Cambridge KET certificate with distinction is desirable; French and German start from scratch. The school says it has foreign students and runs extracurricular Italian classes for non-native speakers.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year programmes on the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato. Licei: liceo linguistico (course A - English, French, Spanish and ESABAC; course B - English, French, German and IGCSE; course C - English, French, Spanish; 33 hours a year of conversation with a native speaker in each language), liceo delle scienze umane, liceo economico sociale. Technical institute: Meccanica, Meccatronica ed Energia (robotics and additive manufacturing), Informatica e Telecomunicazioni. Course B: in grades 1-2, 2 hours of IGCSE Travel & Tourism are added to 3 hours of English; in grades 3-4, 2 hours of IGCSE Mathematics in English are added to 1 hour of mathematics; IGCSE exams at the end of grades 2 and 4 are held at the school and marked by Cambridge.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. Only in course B of the language liceo: IGCSE Travel and Tourism in years 1-2 and IGCSE Mathematics taught in English in years 3-4, with exams at the school at the end of years 2 and 4.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Makerspace
Clubs and activities: EU High School Chorus Ensemble · Trans'Alp Project · ICDL Project · Language Certifications · Decorando (refreshing school spaces) · The True Citizen's Medal Table · German Taster Lessons
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school has about 160 teachers and more than 40 technical and administrative staff; native speakers work in the language courses, and there are additional teachers for extra and remedial lessons.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
A psychological counselling desk is available to students, there is a bullying and cyberbullying coordinator and prevention projects, a health and wellbeing programme and an inclusion group. The buildings are free of architectural barriers.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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