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Teleskola.mt – strengthening online learning

Friday, 1 May 2020, 08:34 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

As soon as the world got to grip with the challenges and threats that the COVID-19 outbreak was going to put upon us all, we immediately started discussions, and consequently reached agreement among...

Debts or grants

Thursday, 30 April 2020, 07:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

One point that Europeans have failed to agree upon as yet as they prepare their economic recovery programme is how funds should be extended – as loans or as grants? On this one too there...

A social pact for Worker's Day – Michael Briguglio

Thursday, 30 April 2020, 07:18 Last update: about 7 years ago Michael Briguglio

Malta’s Government is adopting an evidence-based approach to the health aspect of the COVID-19 situation, and as things stand, the strategy is working. Using the same logic, it is important that...

Open your eyes!

Wednesday, 29 April 2020, 08:33 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I interviewed Dr Marceline Naudi, Head and Senior Lecturer within the Department of Gender and Sexualities at the Faculty for Social Wellbeing.     What are your research...

New fuel stations policy a positive change

Tuesday, 28 April 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Tara Cassar

The long-overdue review of the Fuel Service Stations Policy was finally published last Friday. The policy has been welcomed and with fair reason. Its predecessor had allowed for the take-up of...

No exams

Monday, 27 April 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Schooling without having to undergo exams was an issue that over the years created huge controversies in the development of our educational system. We do not need to discuss it here. Today in a...

Solidarity: practising what we preach

Sunday, 26 April 2020, 10:25 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

In the local political lexicon, at times, the significance of Malta’s EU membership is incorrectly equated to the financial input of the union in the financing of the development of the...

Why are victorious Labour Party leaders so awful?

Sunday, 26 April 2020, 09:31 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

Let’s start with a few confessions. It’s Covid time so confessions are easier, more plentiful and more heartfelt. Life has never felt so fragile, especially for the over 60s like me, so on...

Can’t we just remain as we are?

Sunday, 26 April 2020, 08:26 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

On Good Friday a local worthy put on the Roman centurion armour he usually wears during the procession and paraded with it up and down the street in Madliena where he lives while someone in the...

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