SPECIAL EDUCATION TRAINING COURSE 2024

The 2024 cycle of the Special Education Training Course (known in Italian as TFA Sostegno- Tirocinio Formativo Attivo) saw thousands of aspiring teachers apply for specialisation in teaching pupils with disabilities. Recrytera was chosen as the technology partner to support universities and institutions in the digital management of the tests, helping them to manage this simultaneous selection process across different universities in a reliable and scalable manner.

TFA Sostegno is a university course that enables students to gain the necessary qualifications to teach pupils with disabilities at nursery, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary level. 

The selection procedure is governed by ministerial regulations and carried out through competitions announced by universities. These competitions include preliminary tests that determine access to subsequent stages of selection.   

The preliminary tests for the 2024 TFA Sostegno (Teaching Qualification Certificate) consist of timed tests and multiple-choice questions. These are designed to assess the fundamental skills set out in the regulations for access to specialisation courses.

Digital management via a platform and tablets enables the tests to be conducted synchronously at all locations, ensuring anonymity, data security and real-time monitoring of session progress.

The 2024 TFA Sostegno involved a complex group of stakeholders, including universities, technical facilities, and logistical and technological support teams, as well as the examination boards themselves. 

Coordinated collaboration between these entities was essential to ensure that the tests were conducted in an orderly and secure manner, in line with the deadlines set out in the university announcements. 

For such a large-scale selection process, technology and people worked together in a synergistic way. The digital platform, which is being adopted by an increasing number of universities, enabled:

• digital management of tests.
• real-time monitoring of participation flows.
• security and traceability of processes.
• logistical support for multi-site sessions.

This approach ensured reliable performance, even when dealing with several thousand candidates.

The 2024 cycle of the TFA Sostegno demonstrated the effectiveness of a structured and scalable technology platform in supporting selection procedures with high participation rates.

By entrusting exam management to a digital solution, universities have been able to respond effectively to operational needs, thereby increasing transparency, security and the overall quality of the experience for institutions and candidates alike.