Education
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Sunday, February 19, 2012 , by
Deirdre Morris
Schools of the future
Instead of fixing what is broken in our children to fit the needs of an exhausted society, schools of the future will be environments of nurturing geared towards nourishing the innate wisdow, goodness and perfection of the children, teachers and...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
De La Salle 6th Formers take part in Euroscuola
A group of second-year Sixth Formers from De La Salle College, Cottonera, recently took part in a Euroscuola activity at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Euroscola events are organised several times throughout the year in which all E...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
First local graduates from UK university’s Malta programme
The first cohort of 17 students who undertook the Malta programme of the University of Sheffield’s MA in Early Childhood Education at St Catherine’s High School, Pembroke, recently celebrated their graduation at a presentation ceremony and a di...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Science education reform discussion
A discussion entitled ‘Reform in Science Education’ will be hosted by the Malta Chamber of Scientists at the Music Room at St James Cavalier on February 29 at 6.30 p.m. The meeting will discuss the recently issued document ‘Vision for Scie...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Will robots eventually take over man?
A Malta Café Scientifique public talk entitled ‘Man vs Machine: Could robots take over our lives?’ will be held on Thursday at 7.15 p.m. at Inspirations Café, St James Cavalier. Films such as The Matrix, Terminator and I Robot have all pre...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
San Andrea students on Tuscany visit
A group of 32 students studying Italian at San Andrea Senior School, L-Imselliet, recently conducted a week-long education visit to various cities in Tuscany. The experience brought to life the theory the students learnt during their Itali...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Launch of books to raise pupils’ animal awareness
Subculture Animal Friends has just published 10,500 booklets aimed at raising animal awareness in pupils aged eight to 11, which will be distributed free to all Year 4, 5 and 6 students in State schools. The books will be launched on Frida...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012 , by
Julian Saez, Deirdre Morris
Plans for Waldorf school in Malta
Following the publication of the article ‘An alternative school model’ (The Sunday Times, January 29), a large number of parents and education professionals contacted us expressing interest in participating in, or supporting our...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
School holds an educational visit to Cyprus
A group of 25 students and two teachers from St Ignatius College Girls’ Secondary School, Blata l-Bajda, recently went on an educational visit to Cyprus. The group spent two days in the south of Cyprus, which is occupied by the Greek Cypri...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
San Anton’s 2nd careers convention
San Anton School, L-Imselliet, recently organised its second Careers Convention to give its final-year students the opportunity to attend talks, informally meet prospective employers, and learn about careers and professions they may not have con...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Science network for teachers
Science Teaching European Network for Creativity and Innovation in Learning (Stencil) is a network that enables teachers to view over 900 initiatives for science education projects that can be implemented in their own classes. Teachers fro...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Maltese student wins two Rotary awards
Thomas Naudi, a 19-year-old Bachelor of Commerce student at the University of Malta recently won two Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) during a RYLA event held in Panchgani, near Mumbai, India, organised by Rotary District 3060. He won...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
194 reports of internet abuse
Since February 2011 the Appoġġ hotline team has received 194 reports of internet abuse, of which 131 came through the online reporting system on www.appogg.gov.mt, while 63 reports where received through calls on Supportline 179. These reports in...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012 , by
PA
Many UK pupils can’t add, spell
More than a quarter of children in the UK aged between 10 and 12 cannot add two small sums of money without using a calculator, a survey has revealed. Youngsters are leaving primary school unable to spell, add or do times tables an...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012 , by
PA
Longer school day proposed in UK
The school day should be extended to prepare pupils for the workplace, stop them joining gangs and give them a “haven” from chaotic homes, the UK Labour party has proposed. Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg backed longer hours in t...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Teaching pupils the rhythm of diversity
To mark World Refugee Day 2012, St Benedict’s College’s Safi primary school recently invited two African refugees to visit the school to take part in a ‘Drum circle activity’ to help students appreciate and celebrate cultural diversity with the h...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012 , by
Antoine Gambin
Project on validating informal learning in mobility actions
A number of partners from several European countries have been working together over a number of years to create a system of validation of informal learning. This work has resulted in the Level 5 approach for evaluating informal learning –...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
St Edward’s donation to Puttinu Cares
St Edward’s College Junior School recently presented a donation to Puttinu Cares to go towards the purchase of a flat in London for the families of children who need cancer treatment in the UK. The cheque was presented by two of the school’s pupi...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Gearing up for SAC 6th Form Soirée
Students and stage crew at St Aloysius’ College Sixth Form, Birkirkara, have over the past few weeks been busy holding rehearsals after school hours and during weekends to prepare for one of the college’s most anticipated events of the year – the...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Learning how its done in Holland
Marlene Craus, a learning support assistant at St Margaret College’s Żabbar Primary A recently visited two primary schools in The Netherlands as part of Comenius project during which she was able to observe the school and class set-ups, and their...
