Malta's PIRLS score: uncertain pathway in education

Therese Comodini Cachia

Therese Comodini Cahica | Unless the administration forges a way forward ensuring good standards across the board, we cannot expect our system to score highly on comparative...

How to save the Maltese language from extinction

Evarist Bartolo

While Maltese literature is doing very well and publications are relatively strong, the everyday use of the language in the digital world is minimal, and there’s little hope...

School tracksuits are the least of our problems

Josanne Cassar

A child who is good at school will be good at whichever school he is sent...

A child who is good at school will be good at whichever...

The announcement of a Public Appointments Act is both timely and highly commendable; questions however remain as to whether the proposal – which is still...

The announcement of a Public Appointments Act is both...

Serious lack of maintenance of rented premises may bring about eviction

Malcolm Mifsud

'When a tenant fails to perform maintenance, which leads to serious damage to the rented property, then the tenant may be evicted from that property'

'When a tenant fails to perform maintenance, which...

Certainly it is not ‘unusual’ for incoming party leaders to face internal dissent among warring factions. But such tensions are normally shielded...

Certainly it is not ‘unusual’ for incoming...

Who will bite the bullet on car restrictions?

Josanne Cassar

We can continue to complain and blame everyone (but ourselves) for all this...

We can continue to complain and blame everyone (but...

Blame illegal hunting on the government, not hunters

Raphael Vassallo

'It must, however, be remembered that the 1980s also ushered in the very...

'It must, however, be remembered that the 1980s also...

Evarist Bartolo

The nature of teaching and learning has been completely revolutionised, thanks to the availability of new technologies. Long gone are the rows of desks with...

The nature of teaching and learning has been completely...

Frank Psaila

President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker gave his anticipated annual State of the Union Address last week, presenting his vision for Europe in...

President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker...

Michael Falzon

Whether Delia will succeed is yet to be seen - however 'there is no doubt that he was elected on a wave of repressed anger, that the PN grassroots felt at...

Whether Delia will succeed is yet to be seen - however...

Why is Busuttil still Opposition leader?

Raphael Vassallo

Rephrase: why hasn't Simon Busuttil taken on board the message that 'the Nationalist Party does not want him as a leader'

Rephrase: why hasn't Simon Busuttil taken on board the...

[WATCH] Proxy forgery can’t be forgotten in din of resignation

Saviour Balzan

Proxy votes were issued for people who did not ask for their vote in the first...

Proxy votes were issued for people who did not ask for...

Saviour Balzan

In another world, Jean Pierre Debono would have resigned after reports showing the potential falsification of voters' signaturies surfaced, writes Saviour...

In another world, Jean Pierre Debono would have resigned...

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Can we please drop the myth about who has the most values?

Josanne Cassar

No politician can tell me which people have intrinsic “values” in...

No politician can tell me which people have intrinsic...

On 7 September – a week before his election – Delia said that co-option to Parliament was “no longer an issue”. Clearly, that was a lie

On 7 September – a week before his election –...

Harassment takes place when there is a multitude of incidents

Malcolm Mifsud

The Police V Tristan Tedesco - he was charged with having escaped from police...

The Police V Tristan Tedesco - he was charged with having...

In terms of vulnerable members of our society, ' enormous steps in the right directions are being achieved through the introduction by the Education...

In terms of vulnerable members of our society,...

Josanne Cassar

It’s all very well to post photos of the rubbish we see on a daily basis, tut tut our disgust and use an ‘angry face’ emoticon to express our...

It’s all very well to post photos of the rubbish we...

Political media: treating people like idiots since 1992

Raphael Vassallo

In light of the PN leadership election, has it left us 'more divided than...

In light of the PN leadership election, has it left us...