At the Ministerial Meeting of the Education Policy Committee (EDPC) of the OECD underway in Paris, the Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara officially posed 3 themes: promote an extraordinary meeting with finance ministers and ministers of education to promote policies that lead to an increase in school funds, study new forms of funding for education, create a common database that collects the best practices implemented by countries to combat dropout and failure school.
Today's meeting between the ministers, ambassadors and delegates of the 38 member countries of the OECD (plus the 4 in accession, Brazil, Croatia, Peru and Romania) was held with the aim of defining the guidelines for future work within the international organization, with the aim of building effective education systems and thus contributing to a more sustainable and inclusive economic and social development.
Speaking at the various discussion sessions, Minister Valditara highlighted that "the current crises and growing inequalities require us not only to invest adequately in education policies, but also in a more targeted manner", in connection with economic policies, social and employment. Believing that investments in education have an important economic and social return in the medium and long term, added Valditara, "the Italian government is engaged in an important action in favor of education, both through the national budget and through the considerable resources of the Recovery and Resilience Plan”.
The Minister recalled, as an example, the intervention to support participation in early childhood education and care, which sees major investments in infrastructure and for the improvement of educational quality, to increase the supply of services and reduce fees at the expense of families. Furthermore, he underlined the commitment of the Ministry of Education and Merit to combat early school leaving, particularly in schools where dropout rates are higher.