The Ministry of Education and MCAST said this afternoon that the selection of teaching centres to provide ICT courses had been frozen pending a court case and a police investigation.
MCAST had been in the process of selecting teaching centres since the number of applicants for the courses exceeded places available at MCAST itself.
The ministry and MCAST said that after a selection board made its recommendations to the Contracts Committee, a tenderer filed an appeal and also filed an application in court.
Furthermore, the police had been requested by the Opposition spokesman for education, Evarist Bartolo, to investigate the selection process.
Both the court case and the police investigation were still pending.
The ministry and MCAST said they wanted to assure the students that they would be given the same number of hours and the same quality of teaching as the other students who had already started their course.