As the last festa fireworks fade over Floriana and the August sea begins to cool, Maltese parents swap bucket-and-spade emojis for pencil-and-ruler ones. But beneath the flurry of back-to-school WhatsApp groups—bus routes, book lists, “Ħu l-uniformi tal-Ġunior?”—lurks a quieter current: children’s anxiety. This year, with inflation nudging €7 for a ħobż biż-żejt and classrooms still…
Knights College joins EURASHE: Maltese educators step onto the European stage By Hot Malta Staff Sliema’s seafront was still blinking itself awake last Monday when Knights College Malta fired off the announcement that has since ricocheted through every staff-room from Valletta to Victoria: the island’s youngest degree-granting institution has been accepted as full member of…
MUT makes tax, pension proposals in suggestions on the Budget ————————————————————— By Hot Malta Newsroom | Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 7:45 am The Malta Union of Teachers has lobbed a fresh set of demands into Castille’s letterbox ahead of this October’s Budget, and—true to form—they’re not asking for flashy gimmicks. Instead, the 8,000-member union wants…
**8,600 State-School Educators Return to Classrooms as Malta Embraces New Scholastic Year** The familiar hum of schoolyards across Malta and Gozo returned this week as 8,600 state-school educators headed back to their classrooms, marking the official launch of the 2024-2025 scholastic year. From the historic streets of Valletta to the quiet villages of Gozo, teachers,…
# St Aloysius College Breaks 118-Year Tradition: Girls Welcome in 2025 Birkirkara’s iconic Jesuit college will open its doors to female students for the first time since 1907, marking a seismic shift in Malta’s educational landscape that has left alumni both celebrating and questioning the end of an era. The announcement, made by the school’s…
Frank Salt Real Estate opens its own academy in San Ġwann: a Maltese answer to the island’s property boom San Ġwann, the quiet residential pocket wedged between Birkirkara’s traffic arteries and St Julian’s glittering towers, has long been prized for its village-core calm and proximity to everything Malta’s coast can throw at you. This morning…
Back to school: the importance of educators’ well-being By Hot Malta Staff Valletta – While parents scramble for stationery deals in Hamrun’s back-to-school markets and children compare rainbow-coloured lunchboxes, a quieter conversation is unfolding in staffrooms across the archipelago: how are the teachers themselves doing? This year, Malta’s 7,700 state-school educators return to classrooms still…
**MCAST Unveils First-Ever ‘Positivity Toolkit’ to Help Maltese Students Beat Exam Stress and Winter Blues** Paola – While most students were still shaking sand out of their backpacks after the long Easter weekend, lecturers at Malta’s largest further-education college were quietly rolling out a home-grown weapon against anxiety. On Tuesday morning, inside a sun-lit atrium…
Floriana’s Independence Arena was already humming at 07:30 this morning when Education Minister Dr. Justyne Caruana stepped up to the dais and declared 21 September 2025 “a textbook example of how Malta does more than mark history—we make it.” Against a backdrop of vintage luzzu sails dyed in the new national palette of white, red…
# Record low early school leavers as government reaffirms child-focused approach Malta has hit a historic milestone in its education journey, with early school leaving rates plummeting to an all-time low of 8.2%—well below the EU target of 10% and a dramatic drop from the 21% recorded just a decade ago. The achievement, announced by…
From five weeks to a year: police training overhauled —————————————————– The parade-ground bark that once echoed for barely a month at the Malta Police Academy in Ħal Far is being replaced by a full 12-month syllabus that includes de-escalation drills in Valletta’s tight baroque alleys, cyber-crime simulations at the SmartCity hub, and 80 hours of…
**All Aboard for Winter: Malta’s Buses Shift Gear as Students Head Back to Class** Valletta’s skyline was still blushing with the last bruise of dawn when the first winter-schedule bus—an emerald-and-cream King Long—rumbled out of the new Floriana terminus at 05:20 this Monday. Inside, driver Raymond Pace adjusted his mirror to watch a crocodile of…
