State Secondary Schools have school autonomy They can ask for external Quality Assurance Certificate for some topics or for the school, also to apply for regional and European funds. We have a Quality Assurance System in all regional VET schools. To maintain external certification and accreditation you have to ask for a visit of external experts every year

Guidance and counseling for pupils Collaboration with the Psychological Service Collaboration with the City Hall in case of economic and social hardship, low attendance… Collaboration with the Health System for the prevention of drugs and alcoholism addiction, bullying… Social services of the Town Halls ensure basic services for health, food, housing,in case of family distress. Youth Information and Job Centers try to prevent failure and to offer counseling and job opportunities

You have to adapt the system: To the law on compulsory Education, on the school reforms, on the new State Exams… To the law on alternating school attendance and work, To the results of the research through invitations to courses and training sessions (not mandatory) The changes in schools, for example collaboration with other schools for update networks, continuity, re- orientation,

The Quality Assurance System involves the presence of skilled specialists to prevent the early school leaving and human, structural and financial resources in schools In Italy, from 1999 to 2003 the early school leaving was decreasing.. Since 2008 we have had hard cuts of human and economic resources. In 2010, the average of the early school leavers was of 18%. Now the 40% of the young people are “Neets” Certification versus self-assessment. CEDEFOP made a guide for self- assessment in the technical and vocational schools. The two paths can be both followed in the same school, even contemporary. In the regional schools we can find the presence of many procedures to prevent early school leaving in the Quality Assurance System.We’ll give some examples from the Quality System of Clusane VET School

- Orientation - Open days, Some days in the entering school, learning experiences and guidance - System of post graduated specialists : hours dedicated to mentoring and guidance - Programming learning modules stressing on the acquisition of personal and professional skills and competences - Proficiency testing: know-how and know how to be have greater weight in the evaluation than abstract knowledge - Strong association with the sector operators and the surrounding territory - Openness to foreign work market