Government to pay for facilitators in private schools - more university and MCAST investment
Funds are being allocated for an extension of the MCAST campus.
The government has announced financial assistance to enable private independent schools to engage facilitators.
Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said such assistance was already being given to state and Church schools.
He explained that the budget was providing €13 million for projects of the Foundation for Tomorrow’s Schools. Work will continue on the new primary school at Pembroke and on the building of secondary schools in Victoria and Mosta.The plan was for the government to open a new school every year.
The university’s financial allocation is going up going up by €4.4 million to €36 million and another €1.5 million will be invested in the new ICT Faculty, research and in the library. The scholarship project called Steps will benefit from an investment of €10 million over four years.
The minister said that €13.3 million will be invested at MCAST so that lecturers would have the opportunity to improve their qualifications. Another six projects, amounting to a cost of €5.7 million, would be undertaken for the college to provide multimedia training, a languages laboratory and new computer systems. €3.7 million will be invested for a start to the extension of the MCAST campus.
The government would also be investing in new childcare centres in Siggiewi and Pembroke.
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philip pace
Nov 4th 2008, 09:42
Yeah, keep on investing in these educational institutions and forget about the other younger generation which do not want to know about them but are happy and eager to learn some trades.
Shall we become another Italy where the large amount of the younger generation want to attend the same institutions and then in five years time these are not around anymore?
Carry on and amaze us!
l Galea
Nov 3rd 2008, 22:22
Why should the Government not provide facilitators in Government schools instead of private schools?
There are not enough facilitators for Government schools, let alone for private ones who should provide the facilitators themselves.
V Fenech
Nov 3rd 2008, 21:46
Again, these are all generic half-baked promises which show no commitment from the Government which is failing when coming to practical methods!
A serious administration would focus on the problems of students individually and tackles what really is affecting and damaging our education system. Just for the sake of the readers, the new colleges mentioned by Minister Fenech are functioning reversely. Secondary pupils are still being taught the stupid subject of Business studies where they are given three useless samples of Accounts, Marketing and Economics!
K Freeman
Nov 3rd 2008, 19:55
I have a son in a public school that has been waiting 3 years for a facilitator and still waiting..... and was classified as an urgent case by the CDAU!!!