The Labour Party today saluted the memory of Ralf Dahrendorf, the German sociologist who resisted Dom Mintoff's student-worker education reforms in the late 1970s.
Prof Dahrendorf died on Wednesday, aged 80.
"Dahrendorf was a great friend of Malta. He was involved in the complex issue of higher education in our country, in which he played a positive role which needs to be re-evaluated in the historical context of the time," the PL said.
The PL also praised Dahrendorf's role in the German Maltese Circle, which, it said, contributed to the appreciation of German culture at a time of major German investment in Malta.