Isles of the Left

Education in Malta: a Beacon of Equal Opportunity or a Means of Segregation?

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Isn’t free and equal education for all the bastion of equal opportunity? Not if the education system segregates children according to the thickness of their parents’ wallets.

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Muslim Students in Maltese Schools: Outsiders Looking in

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Presently, Muslims in our schools can be compared to students who require a wheelchair but no ramps and easy access doors are built for them. Schools are not free of prejudice and do not make the necessary arrangements to provide these pupils favourable conditions for learning.

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Ignorance in the Age of Permanent Education

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Ignorance is a very important educational starting point. By recognizing our lack of knowledge, we open up to a discovery of the world through curiosity, learning from mistakes, dialogue with other standpoints which is very similar to self-driven child play.

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Four Reasons to Increase the Minimum Wage in Malta

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Reasons to increase the minimum wage are plenty. And some of them further prove that it is not only sensible, but also beneficial to higher income earners, who may not be morally bound to the principle of economic equity.

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