Education
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Kirkop Boys’ Secondary Celebration Day
St Benedict College Boys’ Secondary, Kirkop, recently held its Celebration Day in the school hall. The school play dealt with the themes of diversity and water as a scarce resource, and how it was possible, if the different experts worked together,...
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Sacred Heart has a Field Day
This year’s games at the Convent of the Sacred Heart Junior School’s Field Day highlighted diversity by helping children become more aware of the realities faced by people with disability. In some games, they had to carry out the activity...
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St Elias College’s prize-giving ceremonies
St Elias College, a secondary school run by the Carmelite Friars, recently held its prize-giving ceremonies. The evenings’ programme included songs by the Form 1 students, music by the college band and the play entitled Min Jiflaħ Iħawwel, an...
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Mtarfa Primary’s Celebration Day
St Nicholas College’s Mtarfa Primary recently held its first Celebration Day to showcase the students’ talents on stage, and to present certificates to all students, displaying their individual skills and abilities in the various projects carried...
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Learning English through drama
Education is once again in the spotlight. Education Minister Evarist Bartolo recently highlighted “a lack of sufficient knowledge of the English language” as one of the major hurdles holding our students back from excelling in other academic...
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Fashion show with a difference
St Margaret College’s Żejtun Girls’ Secondary School recently held a fashion show with a difference as part of an environmental awareness campaign regarding recycling material. School classes were asked to design and make a costume out of recycled...
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Youths on The Zone
Video interviews of youths talking about their careers are being featured on The Zone at www.timesofmalta.com/thezone. Tomorrow a new interview will be uploaded on the following youth: Alex Alden wrote her first song at the age of 15. At 18, she is...
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French student exchange
Students from San Andrea Senior School and from of the Henri Ageron School of Vallon Pont d’Arc, in the South of France, have taken part in an exchange programme aimed at improving their French and English language skills while learning more about...
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Chemistry students at Belgian Science Expo
Five 14-year-old chemistry students from St Margaret College’s Girls’ Secondary, Żejtun, who won the 2013 NSTF Young Scientists school contest with their project The Effect of Herbicides on Archaeological Stones, recently represented Malta at the...
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Students air green concerns
Over 100 students aged 11 to 18 from local schools recently took part in the Young Reporters for the Environment programme, in which they had to investigate and write a journalistic article or take photos or produce a video to air their concerns on...
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Edwardian is best public speaker
St Edward’s College student Jessica Xuereb recently won the English-Speaking Union of Malta’s public speaking competition held at Le Méridien, St Julian’s. The contest followed a three-day academy that trained 24 post-secondary students through...
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Creating growth from change
A short course entitled Creating Growth from Change is being organised by Malta University Consulting Ltd. The course will consist of four sessions of three hours, each taking place on June 6, 13, 20 and 27 at the Malta University Residence, Robert...
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Top young French translator
Junior College student Janice Valentina Bonnici, a student of French and Maltese at A level, placed first in the national 2012 Juvenes Translatores contest, a translation competition organised annually by the European Commission. The awards ceremony...
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Youths on The Zone
Video interviews of youths talking about their careers and talents are being featured on The Zone at www.timesofmalta.com/thezone. Tomorrow a new interview will be uploaded on the following youth: One doesn’t come across many young people who can...
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First Maths Venture held
Some 80 Form 3 students in State, Church and independent schools recently took part in the first Maths Venture organised by the Mathematics Section within the Curriculum Management and eLearning Department in conjunction with the University’s...
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7th Maths Olympiad
San Andrea Senior School’s Mathematics Department recently organised the seventh edition of its yearly Mathematical Olympiad, a competition aimed at promoting teamwork and healthy competition while practising problem-solving skills and other...
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Effects of TV, computer games, and smartphones on children
I have been living out of my home country, the Czech Republic, for more than seven years now and I like to go back time to time. One of the things I enjoy when I am there is to walk around familiar streets noticing changes that took place during my...
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Book collections of Dennis Vella and Neville Ferry donated to Mcast library
The private book collections of the late Dennis Vella and Neville Ferry, including over 1,050 volumes, were recently donated to the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology’s Institute of Art and Design’s library to be used by the college’s art...
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Science book prizes presented
Over 25 students from various State and non-State schools were recently presented with science books donated by Word for Word Bookshop for placing first from their school in the Science Art Contest organised by the National Students Travel...
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Youths on The Zone
Video interviews of youths talking about their careers and talents are being featured on The Zone at www.timesofmalta.com/thezone. Tomorrow a new interview will be uploaded on the following youth: Sean Vella has been producing and recording music...
