**Year 7-9 Students to Receive Laptops and Digital Resources in Major Education Overhaul** In a landmark move that promises to reshape Malta’s educational landscape, the government has announced that all Year 7 to Year 9 students will receive personal laptops and access to comprehensive digital learning resources. This ambitious initiative, unveiled by Education Minister Clifton…
**Cutting university funds is a cost too high** *By [Author Name], Hot Malta* Walk down Republic Street on a weekday afternoon and you’ll see them: clusters of students in hoodies emblazoned with the University of Malta crest, arguing over espressos about AI ethics, Baroque apses, or whether the latest EU directive will sink the family…
**Sliema startup’s ‘study buddy’ AI promises to turn Malta into the Mediterranean’s smartest island** The bell at the University of Malta’s Msida campus hasn’t even finished echoing across the quadrangle when a knot of students outside the library already have their phones out. But they’re not scrolling TikTok – they’re talking to “Ari”, a new…
**First Maltese-language autism toolkit lands in teachers’ hands – and classrooms may never be the same** Valletta – For years, Maltese educators who wanted to support autistic students had to wade through English manuals peppered with references to British SENCOs or American IEP forms. That changed this week when the National Literacy Agency and the…
**At Home with Dementia: October Course Brings Hope to Maltese Families** As autumn’s golden light bathes Malta’s honey-coloured limestone buildings, hundreds of local families are preparing for a different kind of seasonal transition. This October, the Malta Dementia Society launches its pioneering “At Home with Dementia” course—a four-week programme that promises to transform how Maltese…
**Local engineer uses AI to turn Malta’s 200-year-old constitution into a WhatsApp-forward that even nanna understands** By [Hot Malta Staff] VALLETTA – When software engineer Luke Camilleri tried to explain to his 82-year-old grandmother why she was entitled to a new pension supplement, he ended up chasing her around the kitchen with a 96-page PDF…
**Past Victoria school students get together** The narrow streets of Victoria, Gozo, echoed with laughter last Saturday as more than 200 former students of the town’s government primary school reunited for the first “Ħbieb tal-Iskola Beltin” picnic. Spread beneath the orange trees of Villa Rundle, the gathering turned the usually tranquil garden into a living…
**’Past Forward’ – Science in the City returns to Valletta** Valletta’s streets will transform into an open-air laboratory this Friday as Science in the City returns with its 2024 edition, themed ‘Past Forward.’ The annual festival, Malta’s largest science and arts celebration, promises to bridge centuries of innovation through interactive exhibits, performances, and workshops scattered…
**Engineers must be central to Vision 2050, Chamber warns amid talent crisis** Malta’s ambitious Vision 2050 strategy risks stalling before it even leaves the drawing board unless the island urgently reverses its growing shortage of engineers, the Malta Chamber of Commerce has warned. In a stark briefing delivered to MPs last week, the Chamber painted…
Valletta’s 16th-century Casa Rocca Piccola has hosted nobility, NATO generals and, last week, a different kind of power-broker: 40 university deans who flew in to witness the official launch of the Mediterranean Academy of Tourism (MAT). The new research-and-training hub, which quietly relocated its headquarters from Barcelona to Malta in January, is already enrolling its…
Finnish phone ban brings focus, and chatter, back to school – could Malta ever hang up? Valletta’s grand-parents still talk about the day the first Nokia brick landed in their children’s blazer pockets: suddenly, break-time hopscotch was replaced by snake hunts on grey screens. Fast-forward to 2024 and Finland – the very birthplace of that…
How to survive the dreaded ‘back-to-school apocalypse’ – the Maltese way By Hot Malta staff It starts with a distant rumble of suitcases being dragged across uneven limestone pavements. Then comes the scent of freshly-printed Sliema Mon Amour notebooks mingling with August’s last batch of ħobż biż-żejt. Before you know it, the islands’ traffic arteries…
