St Aloysius College will be introducing some changes to the selection process for potential sixth form students to reduce competition and widen the possibilities for students who wish to attend its sixth form, Rector Jimmy Bartolo said yesterday.

“We are studying the possibility of small changes in order to enable us to pay attention to other criteria, apart from intellectual ones, when selecting sixth form students.”

The current number of students will still be maintained so as to ensure personalised attention. He was addressing Archbishop Paul Cremona on his official visit marking the 106th year since St Aloysius College first opened its doors as a secondary school.

There are currently 521 students attending the sixth form, the largest number to date.

A larger number of students were taken in this year, while the choice of subjects was expanded to enable students to choose University courses which they could not take before.

A course in business and computing was introduced to allow more space for those students who wished to undertake the maths and physics course.

A number of students with particular educational needs are also being selected in line with the value of inclusion.

“Despite our experience within the education sector, we feel the need to keep learning and bringing ourselves up-to-date with science and the art of pedagogy, especially Ignatian Pedagogy, which connects us with the large network of schools led by Jesuits throughout the world,” Fr Bartolo said.

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