Five student interpreters pass Brussels accreditation tests

Five university students who undertook the first postgraduate diploma in interpreting have passed their accreditation tests for jobs in Brussels.

Ten students took part in a three-week intensive course in Brussels hosted by SCIC, the official body of interpreters for the Commission.

The Maltese Booth can now boast of nine new young Maltese interpreters. The second postgraduate course in interpreting has just started at the Faculty of Arts alongside the fourth postgraduate course in translation studies.

Many students graduating in translation studies are also quickly finding jobs in EU institutions in Luxembourg and Brussels.

The university said the number of translators now totals almost 80, "which means that the Faculty of Arts in just three years has gone a long way towards filling the void in these two new areas of study for the University of Malta.

"After the success last year of four Maltese interpreters who passed accreditation tests in Brussels after a one-year scholarship at Westminster University in the UK, it was now the turn of five more students who studied at the Faculty of Arts".

The five successful student interpreters are: Nadia Saliba, Gabriella Cilia, Daniela Scerri, Karla Brincat and Nicola Mangani.