The Labour Party has welcomed a Contracts Board of Appeal decision to hear the case on the outsourcing of IT courses on Friday. The appeal was lodged following the process for the selection of companies to provide the courses for MCAST.

Education spokesman Evarist Bartolo said that contrary to what the government had claimed, it was not the inquiry requested by the opposition which kept courses from starting but the fact that the board had not yet heard the case moved by one of the companies which felt that it had not been fairly treated by the Contracts Committee.

The Labour Party last week appealed for the case to be heard with urgency because the longer it took, the more the 600 students who were supposed to have started their course weeks ago remained without tuition.

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