The Education Ministry is proposing to offer five scholarships every year to Maltese living abroad to follow courses at the University of Malta specialising in the Maltese language, Education Minister Dolores Cristina said today.

The minister was speaking at the opening of today's proceedings of the Convention of Maltese living abroad.

She said that assistance for the teaching of Maltese abroad had always featured among the wishes of Maltese emigrants.

Therefore, the ministry was also proposing to offer incentives to encourage Maltese teachers to teach Maltese among Maltese communities abroad.

A core group within the ministry had also proposed that the university should produce audio-visual presentations on the teaching of Maltese for distribution to Maltese communities living abroad.

Mrs Cristina said her ministry is also proposing to make better use of IT for distance learning so as to further assist the teaching of Maltese abroad.

Maltese publishers would be assisted through a reduction of the costs of shipment of Maltese books to Maltese communities abroad once enough orders for the books were received.

Mrs Cristina said that the ministry was considering the inclusion of the history of Maltese migration as a unit within the national curriculum.

Similarly, the Faculty of Arts would be encouraged to have credit on the history of Maltese emigration.

Mrs Cristina said her ministry looked forward to the views of the Maltese abroad on the proposals that were being made.

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