The Nationalist Party was updating its education policy and had a policy forum dedicated for the purpose, party leader Simon Busuttil said during a visit to Freshers Week at the University.
Dr Busuttil said that Malta’s aim should be for as many people as possible to obtain university degrees.
He said that Malta’s university had just celebrated its 50th anniversary since its foundation at Tal-Qroqq and it was greatly expanded after 1987.
The Nationalist Party, he said, believed that the education system should be linked to new industries that future governments would be bringing to Malta so that the jobs these industries made available would be taken up by the Maltese.
The Nationalist government’s success in employment, he said, was based on the educational infrastructure built for new productive industries which attracted financial, aviation, ICT and gaming services to Malta.