Labour's half-baked education proposals

As usual Labour comes out with half-baked proposals. First it proposed that the government take imports under its wing, hence goodbye to liberalisation; then we had Joseph Muscat promising he would move a Private Member's Bill for the introduction of divorce, would give a free vote to the Labour MPs and would not include it in Labour's electoral manifesto, and now, the third but not least mind-boggling Labour proposal is to set up a second University to introduce competition in the higher levels of education (March 13).

Education has certainly never been Labour's forte. Old Labour had shut Mcast down, removed several University courses and introduced the infamous numerus clausus for University students. New Labour had come out with the ludicrous pre-2008 general election proposal to introduce a repeater's class at kindergarten level.

Can Labour explain in detail what it really wants now? For example, can Dr Muscat say who is meant to run this new University, the public or private sector? Can he elaborate and explain whether students attending this second University will be charged tuition fees? If this tertiary education is to be free, who will finance the expense? If students are to be charged, can he confirm that Labour has just thrown the concept of free education for all out of its electoral programme?