www.eduscopio.it is the web portal that helps families and students choose the secondary school that’s best for them
The new 2024 edition of the free digital platform Eduscopio.it by the Agnelli Foundation (www.eduscopio.it) is online, with updated data on upper secondary schools. It provides information on which schools best prepare students for university studies or the employment after graduation, city by city, and by study program.
Launched in 2014, the platform aims to assist students and their families in choosing the right educational path after junior secondary school.
Since its inception, approximately 3.1 million unique users have visited Eduscopio.it, consulting over 14.8 million pages. These numbers highlight the strong demand for information and transparency from families regarding the quality of upper secondary schools and the usefulness of this tool.
For middle school students nearing the end of their studies, Eduscopio.it allows them to compare secondary schools based on the study programs they are interested in and how well these schools prepare students for university or the workforce, within their residential area.
“Eduscopio has long become an important and much-anticipated resource,” said Andrea Gavosto, Director of the Agnelli Foundation, “for middle school students and their families who are facing the critical decision of choosing a high school. Once again this year, our platform, which is completely free, provides a wealth of information and data, along with user-friendly tools that allow comparisons between schools offering the same study programs. The Agnelli Foundation has always envisioned Eduscopio as a resource that—alongside the FUtuRI platform, developed with the De Agostini Foundation—can effectively complement a broader and more systematic commitment to guiding students in continuing their education. In our view, this represents the primary mission of lower secondary schools over all three years. The data analyzed for this edition of Eduscopio confirm that the pandemic has predictably had very negative effects on the university outcomes of graduates from those years, with a concerning increase in the percentage of students who did not take exams in their first year. On a more positive note, the employment data for those who did not continue to university are encouraging, with figures for 2021 graduates from technical and vocational institutes returning to pre-Covid levels.”
For this new edition of Eduscopio, the Agnelli Foundation’s research team, coordinated by Martino Bernardi, analyzed data from 1,347,000 Italian graduates over three consecutive school years (2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21), across approximately 8,150 study programs in both public and private upper secondary schools.