A five-day study tour to western Sicily, under the academic direction of Mario Buhagiar and history of art lecturer Charlene Vella, was recently organised for University of the Third Age (U3A) students and culturally oriented guest...
Christine Theuma Wilkins was recently awarded a Ph.D in clinical social work from New York University (NYU) Silver School of Social Work. Her qualitative dissertation study focused on men with a history of violence towards their female partners and...
A free training seminar about how to work with different community agents for the educational success of children at school will take place on June 21 at 8.30 a.m. at the Corinthia San Ġorġ Hotel, St George’s Bay. It will be followed by a networking...
Chiswick House School and St Martin’s College recently hosted their annual spring fair at the grounds of St Martin’s College, Swatar. The fair attracted past and present students and their families who came together to play games, view demonstrations...
An open weekend promoting agricultural education is being held by the MCAST Agribusiness Institute between tomorrow and Sunday. During the open weekend, at the Agribusiness Institute, Luqa Road, Qormi, visitors can learn about the different techniques...
Many operators in the financial services industry often fail to understand how vocational education can help them adopt a more pragmatic recruitment policy. Vocational education is often associated with technical training for industrial work and has...
A meeting will be held on June 30 at 6 p.m. on the Quadrangle in front of Student House on theUniversity campus for prospective students in a new undergraduate three-year degree programme – B.Sc. Microelectronics and Embedded Systems. The course is...
A group of 14 final year University students recently visited Berlin for the world’s biggest travel and tourism exhibition and to take part in the ITB Tourism Congress. Spread over three days and 150 conference sessions that cover the main current and...
Students from St Martin’s College, Swatar, recently took part in an adventure holiday at the PeterGordon Lawrence experience at Liddington, Wiltshire, UK. The students engaged in a number of challenging activities, including quad biking, treetop...
De La Salle College primary school, Cottonera, recently held its annual Unesco exhibition, an annual event that the Brothers began in the 1970s. Exhibits by the younger students centred on cartoon characters, the underwater world, different countries...
The students council of Our Lady Immaculate school, Ħamrun, recently celebrated its fifth anniversary by presenting a pen and bookmark to all members of staff and secondary school students. A plaque was also unveiled to mark the occasion held under the...
Year 3 pupils, administration personnel, teachers and learning support assistants at St Joseph Junior School Blata l-Bajda, together with a group of 53 elderly people from the Ħamrun Day Centre, recently visited the Nature Park and Sustainable...
The University is collaborating with four embassies to organise a round table conference marking the 150th anniversary of Italian unity. Experts in Italian history will be visiting Malta in order to discuss ‘The birth of the Italian national state and...
San Ġorġ Preca College Primary, Ħamrun, recently organised an activity to celebrate the saint’s feast. Mass was celebrated by Ħamrun parish priest Fr Henry Balzan. This was followed by performances put up by schools within the college. Students also...
A new milestone was recently reached by the Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education in its quest to provide quality education for all: a draft National Curriculum Framework (NCF) was launched for an extensive public consultation...
Robots are all around us; they are being built in various shapes, sizes and having various levels of autonomy. For example, robots have been very successful at performing accurate and repetitive pre-defined movements and are commonplace in factories.
San Anton Grade 10 students spent their Easter holidays at the PGL Centre in Liddington, near Swindon, UK. This PGL centre is set on 150 acres of land and is equipped to cater for outdoor activities such as kayaking, canoeing, raft-building, archery,...
St Thomas More College Marsascala Primary Kindergarten section recently held an awareness raising event, ‘Our Neverland’, with Winter Moods frontman Ivan Grech, as part of the Ekofest programme. The activity, which involved children, parents, carers...
Safi Primary school recently hosted the regional conference of pupils’ councils within St Benedict College primary schools. Representatives met for a morning of workshops and presentations on the work encompassed by each council. The event started with...
Noella Micallef, B.Sc. (Hons) Physiotherapy, fourth year. Throughout my four years, I have had quite a few end-of-year exams which encompassed the whole two semesters. This meant higher stress levels. The end-of-year exams should be split up into...
The University’s Dean of Science Awards ceremony was held recently on campus. Awardees and their relatives were invited to the event, which started with a welcome address by the Dean, Prof. Charles Sammut, and a short performance by the Mediterranean...
Two final year students reading for a degree in B.Eng. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering at the University have designed, constructed and tested two small pleasure boats. The students, Ryan Cachia and Jeremy Cortis, followed the Ship Studies course...
Norbert Bugeja, who lectures within the University’s Department of English, recently addressed the seventh annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture hosted by the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick in the...
The dreaded exam season is upon us. Along with the weekends indoors, long study days and sleepless nights, comes the stressful atmosphere of the exam room itself. The examination room is a quiet place filled with angst, anticipation and invigilators.
A group of 24 students from Sir Michelangelo Refalo Centre for Further Studies, accompanied by teachers, recently visited Strasbourg, France, to participate in the EU Euroscola. Students visited the EU Parliament. They were one of 24 schools from...
The University’s French programme within the Department of Arts and Languages in Education recently held a French language competition for Form 4 students. Participants had to fill in an exercise booklet prepared by the Faculty of Education’s French...
The University will be collaborating with a number of American universities to offer four dual international master’s programmes beginning in September. Courses will be in conflict resolution, sustainable environment resource management, integrated...
A meeting of the Linguistics Circle will be held in Room 122 at the Mediterranean Institute on Friday at 6 p.m. A talk will be delivered entitled ‘Maltese and the digital age: Developing electronic language re-sources for the Maltese language’. The...
Habitus Mentis, by Luigi Andrea Galea, was announced the winner of a short film festival for youths, held recently at St Clare’s College, Pembroke Primary. Fifteen short films were submitted and screened to an audience and a panel of four judges...
Prof. Maurice Grech, principal and CEO at Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology, explains how Mcast lecturers keep up-to-date through continuous professional development and ongoing quality assurance processes. As young pupils, most of us may...
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