Italian teachers traineeship (TFA)

for short, is a post graduate course in order to be acknowledged as a public teacher of secondary education by the Italian state.

courses may be set up by any university department or by other high education institutions of artistic, musical, or choral subjects, under the condition of them being administrative headquarters.

[5] As a matter of facts T.F.A is a one-year course to train teachers to be, held by universities, which confers, according to the result of the final exam, a teaching license among Italian public secondary school system.

Access to T.F.A courses, as a working competition, is strictly regulated by three exams, in order to prevent an excess of licensed teacher that would be unemployable.

[6] Article 10 of the Ministry decrete states: "By the end of the T.F.A., and after the successful completion of the final exam, candidates are acknowledged as licensed teacher for their respective subject of teaching".

Italian teachers protesting in Rome. T.F.A teachers are demonstrating against their exclusion from "La buona scuola's"' (name of the reform of the public education) hiring plan by Renzi's government.
Demonstration of the National T.F.A. association in Rome, Montecitorio area.