I must admit that it is very discouraging to acknowledge just how inadequate the administration of the University of Malta truly is. Each fresh hurdle grates against any comparison of what should be and it does not bring any comfort to know that educational institutions worldwide share the very same warts that I disparage to see in the one in Malta.

I am today speaking of the none-too-endearing policy of the institution to offer courses as if they were set menus. One (sometimes) gets a choice of optional credits and a precious few extra credits, themselves subject to bureaucratic limitations, but at the end of the day the experience that the student gains from the educational institution leaves much to be desired.

Of course, just as tragic is the ever more apparent reality that the University of Malta was never ‘truly’ as concerned with education as it is concerned with the production of workers for the corporations to digest and eventually spit out on a meager pension (to be made a private venture thanks to successive governments’ incapability in the management of such).

What happened to true education? What happened to learning for the sake of learning? What happened to building a career rather than building a certificate? Why the backward mentality?

One can only hope that future generations are fortunate enough to find true educational opportunities, as such today are just lost to bureaucratic interests.

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