These are the main stories featured in Thursday’s newspapers.
Times of Malta leads with the American University of Malta's struggles to hit its student targets. The university's student population is a fifth of the promised number after its third year of operation.
In another story, the Times of Malta reports on a planned reform of nightclub bouncers' licence requirements.
The Malta Independent says not a single nursing section in Malta is working at full complement, according to the nurses' union.
The newspaper also reports how a 'peadophile mother' who fled to Malta with abused children has been arrested in Spain.
L-Orizzont main story is about plans to upgrade the Corradino prison. Home Affairs Minister Michael Farrugia is touring various countries to analyse different prison models.
In-Nazzjon reports on how UĦM Voice of the Workers is insisting that professionals employed with Steward Health Care should be employed by the government.