Investment, Industry and IT Minister Austin Gatt has launched the first of a series of five new Cisco academies in Malta, at the St Michael’s Foundation.

The first Cisco academies in Malta were opened in 2002 at the Swatar Training Centre, the University of Malta and MCAST. Through these three academies, some 700 individuals have followed Cisco courses to date.

Dr Gatt said that the new Cisco Academies at St Michael’s, Clear Dimensions Ltd, Key Training Services, Computer Domain and UHM through the University of Haifa (Israel), with the perseverance of David de Gaetano of Clear Dimensions, is truly an important milestone for the ICT education sector in Malta.

The Cisco Academy set up at St Michael’s is special, because the school took a brave and innovative step as a secondary school to integrate the IT Essentials curriculum in the full-time ICT curriculum taught at Forms III, IV, and V.