IT students still in the dark about their courses

The Labour Party said today that hundreds of students had still not been assigned a place to study information technology because the MCAST Institute for Information Technology was full up and the government had been slow in identifying private centres where such courses could be held.

MLP education spokesman Evarist Bartolo said it was important that these students were able to start their studies as soon as possible, but it was also important that the private centres selected for this purpose were properly equipped and adequately staffed with trained people.

He observed that while the government boasted about how many students opted to follow IT course, it was not saying that between 20 and 30 percent dropped out after the first year or failed their exams.