Tuesday, 2nd December 2008
Students' two months down the drain
When Labour MP Evarist Bartolo objected to the tendering process vis-à-vis IT at Mcast a police investigation was ordered. It has now transpired that there were absolutely no irregularities in the tendering process and unfortunately our students lost two academic months, never to be regained, for no valid reason. Days have passed since the conclusions of the investigations were made public but Mr Bartolo has remained mum. The decent thing he should have immediately done is apologise to all the students who were negatively affected by his suspicions.
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Just face it; he wanted to prosecute and its been PROVEN that he can't. Whats all your hoo ha about? We all already knew that tendering processes are a farce, people lie and collude in them all the time, so thats hardly an excuse to use to try and justify the time these students have had to wait is it ?
Evarist Bartolo did not order a police inquiry, he asked for one (its funny how before the election everyone trusted in police enquiries but it seems now when the opposition asks for an inquiry its viewed as creating unnecessary problems)
The minister odered the inquiry and as it transpired 2 people will be taken to court for illegal declarations! Have you not noticed that? probably not as you all sit passing these same letters and comments between you all! If you are happy that people gain advantage by giving false information then let them be. Its your taxes!
@ Janet
Are false declarations 'absolutely no irregularities'?
Students were promised by the government that time will be made up! Hope they stick to their promise but don't hold your breath, or elxe they cannot blame the opposition for all their failings!
In the mean-time you are in limbo, your skills and knowledge starting to evaporate at exactly the time they should be being improved....Mr Bartolo launched a police investigation to try and prosecute for wrong-doing, NOTHING worth prosecuting has been found; therefore he should appologise to all those teens who he kept waiting for NOTHING.
But then again, do we really expect a Labour MP to do anything apart from what comes naturally to them? No chance.
Its the Students who i feel sorry for.
It is irresponsible of talking like that on Hon Bartolo. He did the right way - things should have been done correctly in the first instance. Here were are talking of thousands of € from our own pockets and so he did the right thing of pointing that out.
You do not apologize for carrying out your duty towards the taxpayers.
You apologize if you allow a board to change the marks so that companies who did not qualify will then qualify. Then you make sure that the board is held accountable for its actions.
By the way, didn't you hear about the police taking action against two of the companies for supplying false information?