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Parma, Italy · est. 1972 · State
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Liceo Scientifico Giacomo Ulivi is a state science liceo in central Parma, opened in 1972 as the city's second science liceo, when some classes were split off from the Marconi liceo. It is named after Giacomo Ulivi, a young hero of the Parma Resistance. It has 1447 students in 57 classes. Lessons are in Italian under the state curriculum, over five years, ending with the esame di Stato and the liceo scientifico diploma. Tracks: the traditional science liceo with Latin, the applied sciences option with computer science and the traditional science liceo with a Cambridge IGCSE course; the four-year liceo is no longer taking new students. In Cambridge classes extra hours with a native speaker are added: English, biology and physics are partly taught in English, and students sit IGCSE exams and an AS-level exam. The school week is five days, from 7:50 to 13:35. There is an experimental biomedical biology course with the Ordine dei Medici Parma, Erasmus+ and exchanges with Germany and the US.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Class size
on average 25 students per class (1447 students in 57 classes)
About the fees Tuition at the state liceo is free. Native English speaker hours in Cambridge classes are covered by a family contribution; the school mentions the extra charge for the course without an amount. The school also relies on voluntary family contributions, which it says have been falling in recent years.
Admissions Enrolment in the first year is through the state online procedure on the ministry website in January each year; the track, including the Cambridge course, is chosen in the application. The website does not describe a separate test or lottery for the Cambridge course. Students with foreign citizenship attend the liceo, and their share is above the national average; for those recently arrived in Italy the school runs intensive courses and a lab in Italian as a second language.
Stages and year groups Italian state liceo scientifico curriculum, 5 years, ending with the esame di Stato. Tracks: traditional (27 hours a week in years 1-2, 30 in years 3-5), applied sciences with computer science, traditional with the Cambridge course (30 hours a week in all years); the four-year liceo is finishing its last class and takes no new students. Cambridge International: in Cambridge classes IGCSE English as a Second Language (English 3 hours plus 1 hour with a native speaker in years 1-2, exam at the end of year 2 or start of year 3), IGCSE Physics (physics with a native-speaker hour in years 1-2, exam in year 2), IGCSE Biology (science with a native-speaker hour in years 1-2 and year 3, exam in year 3) and Cambridge AS English General Paper (English with a native-speaker hour in years 3-4, exam at the end of year 4). The exams in these subjects are part of the course. Families pay a contribution for the native-speaker hour.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE, AS and A Level. Cambridge classes in the science lyceum study English, Physics and Biology partly in English to IGCSE, then AS English General Paper in years 3-4.
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), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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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 hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The main building on Viale Maria Luigia is the former Corridoni primary school, where the liceo moved in 1987; six new classrooms were built in 1997. Since 2004 some classes have been housed in a branch in the nearby Melloni technical institute, which has no labs of its own. The main building has physics, science, computer, multimedia and photography labs, a TEAL classroom, a debate room with a library, a digital library, an assembly hall and one gym; the school also uses city gyms for PE. Wi-Fi and wired network throughout the building, 70 PCs and tablets in the labs.
Clubs and activities: Theatre Workshop · Choral Singing · Ulivi Little Orchestra · School Sports Centre · School Sports Championships · Neuroscience Olympiad · Italian Physics Championship · We Debate · Erasmus+ (international exchanges) · EIPASS Certification
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 sizein the key facts above
The Cambridge courses and exam preparation are taught by liceo teachers together with native speakers. The school says its staff is stable, but teachers with the language certification needed for the Cambridge course are hard to find, and the number of fixed-term contracts is growing.
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 confidential psychological counselling service with an external specialist is available to students, parents and teachers. The school runs programmes against bullying and cyberbullying with city services and police and supports students with special educational needs and recently arrived foreign students.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 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 data80 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.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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