Posted on 23 January 2012
At a recent meeting of the University’s Senate, it was decided to accept a proposal made by Ph.D. graduand, Dr Roger Vella Bonavita, that the word ‘Melit.’ be added after the abbreviated name of all University of Malta awards. The aim of this is to clearly identify the graduates’ alma mater. In this case, the addition [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 13 January 2012
Malta is a leading market for schools for English as a Foreign Language, and many companies try to oust the others. In an effort to boost its services, EF, a leading international language school recently sent 10 of its employees, many of them University students, to London to meet their foreign counterparts over a weekend in [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 10 January 2012
JEF (Young European Federalists) Malta president Albert Camilleri has reiterated ESU’s reprimand of Belarus’ application to join the EHEA. When contacted, KSU replied with similar comments. Speaking to InsiterOnline, Mr. Camilleri described the situation as “terrible” –adding that the country is still far from being called a true democracy. “One year after the Belorussian 2010 presidential elections, [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 09 January 2012
The European Students’ Union (ESU) has opposed Belarus’ application to join the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) – an organ founded to implement the Bologna Process and other higher education policies. In an official statement, ESU chairperson Allan Päll rebuked Belarusian efforts to join the EHEA due to circumstances preventing students to express themselves in [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 03 January 2012
Following the arrival of Circo Orfei, the Animal Rights Coalition reiterated its call to ban animal circus from Malta. InsiterOnline’s Matthew Mamo dropped by the Floriana Circus to get an inside look at the conditions under the tent. On a cold Thursday night, a few minutes before one of Circus Orfei’s daily shows, I met with Silvio Zammit [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 31 December 2011
With New Year’s Eve now with us, second year Communications student Melissa Manthos Explores how different cultures honour a fresh calender. New Year – that time of the year that some look forward to whilst others fear is round the corner once again. New Year’s Eve, the day when most people have that impulsive urge to [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 21 December 2011
Can you imagine being denied entrance to a university due to your religious beliefs? With nearly 8 million followers in two hundred countries, the Baha’i faith is among the world’s largest religious beliefs. But in Iran, followers of the faith, which emphasises the spiritual unity of all mankind, have found themselves persecuted for decades. This [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 20 December 2011
KSU has issued a statement condemning what it perceives as an “unnecessary attack on the autonomy and integrity of not just KSU, but also the numerous student organisations which are housed in student house”. KSU was responding to a call by MP Owen Bonnici for the Public Accounts Committee to investigate the administration of student house [...] Continue Reading...
Press Release – Faculty of Education With reference to the news items in connection with students’ admissions to the B.Ed.(Hons.) and PGCE programmes of study aired on ONE News (Friday 16th September) and PBS (Saturday 17th September), the Faculty of Education, University of Malta, would like to clarify that: Teaching practice is a compulsory and highly-valued component [...] [...more]
The University campus was evacuated earlier this evening after a bomb threat was received by the University. According to unconfirmed reports, an unidentified person called the university security office at approximately 8.30pm and made the threat, which was ultimately revealed to be a hoax. The scare was treated with all seriousness by the University, and the Tal-Qroqq [...] [...more]
Updated with official statements from KSJC and SDM. The Junior College Student Council (KSJC) announced the first edition of the “KSJC Festival” last weekend, boasting an atmosphere organised “truly for students, by students.” The initiative was met by disgruntlement from several SDM (Studenti Demokristjani Maltin) members – as the Festival is being held during the same [...] [...more]
Prof. Yorik Wilks from the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition gave a presentation earlier today with regards Internet companions. The topic treated the concept which “aims to change the way we think about the relationships of people to computers and the internet by developing a virtual companion to stand between individuals and the [...] [...more]
A number of law students have spoken to insiteronline.com to express their frustration at the large amount of lectures that have been cancelled by their faculty in the three weeks since lectures resumed at the start of October. The students, who did not wish to be named, are all fifth-year students reading for their Doctor [...] [...more]
A MOVE survey held between 3/10/11 and 7/10/11 among 704 correspondents showed that the majority of university students are in favour of same sex marriage but against adoption by same sex couples. The survey boasts a percentage of 56.5% in agreement to same sex marriage, while a staggering 51.1% are in disagreement towards adoption by [...] [...more]
“The BNP leader Nick Griffin was forced to abandon a press conference outside parliament today after protesters pelted him with eggs.” – The Guardian (09/06/09) Of course, this is neither ethical nor permissible in a civil society. Similar things have happened in Malta. As Newton himself aptly remarked, every action gets an equal and opposite reaction; [...] [...more]
A number of university students have joined forces and formed themselves into a group to express their frustration with what they call an “inefficient and disorganised public transport system”, and have announced that they will be holding a public protest to voice their discontent with Arriva and Transport Malta over the current situation. In a statement [...] [...more]
Updated with KPS Standing Orders KSU’s Social Policy Commision (KPS) has announced that a language interpreter will be available at the service of speakers of foreign languages during future meetings. This is in response to an affair which rose during one of the fortnightly meetings of the KPS on the 14th of September, when ASCS international co-ordinator [...] [...more]
Summertime, and the living is easy – well, when one is not madly rushing across an Italian airport about to miss a plane to Yerevan. I will admit, I’m known to have more than a touch of the travel bug. Having spent a summer roaming the battlefields of Waterloo, walking the boards of theatrical London, [...] [...more]
As from Monday October 10th, Maltese radio will never be the same again as XFM 100.2 became the official station playing the best of the ninetees noughties and to-day. XFM has always been on the cutting edge of the local radio scene, and this philosophy will continue to be fulfilled as it becomes the only [...] [...more]
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