Prime Minister Robert Abela continued with more visits to educational institutions as soon as the academic or vocational year began. At the Junior College Gian Franġisk Abela in Msida, Prime Minister Abela met with a number of students including those who started a new experience in post-secondary.
In his visit accompanied by the Parliamentary Secretary for Youth, Research and Innovation Keith Azzopardi Tanti and Government Deputy Abigail Camilleri, Prime Minister Robert Abela delivered an important message that young people must be the protagonists who seize the best opportunities that the country is offering in a time of environmental and even digital transition.
In the freshers’ week of the Junior College, Dr. Abela stressed that with the common good we also understand that the investment in education will be a tool that gives new skills for the students to get the best so that when they are in the work sector have careers that bring quality of life because they offer them the best conditions and a healthy income for themselves and their families. When he then visited the Institute for Tourism Studies (ITS), Prime Minister Robert Abela noted how invaluable work is being done here to prepare students to work in a field that is also so important for our country.
He referred to the multi-million investment in the new ITS campus in Smart City and he points out that the field of hospitality has shown how important it is for the country’s economy but Malta needs to continue to take the next step, the one that has more emphasis on the quality linked to the tourist product of Malta and Gozo. He said that the investment in students must also be reflected in quality careers in a field that must offer a nicer and cleaner environment for tourists and Maltese in our country.
In the visit to the ITS the Minister for Tourism Clayton Bartolo and Government Deputy Katya De Giovanni accompanied the Prime Minister. During this academic year in the Junior College there are around two thousand students while in the ITS more than six hundred students came to study. This is apart from a noticeable increase of students who are studying at Masters level in International Hospitality Management and Bachelors in Culinary Arts among others.
