The fruit from the investment in a center of excellence in MCAST is part of our vision for the next ten years which gives importance to innovation but also vocational education as part of the changes we are bringing to our country for young people to have quality careers in Malta.
This was the important message delivered by the Prime Minister Robert Abela when he visited the Freshers’ Week at the MCAST campus in Pahal where he met many students, some of whom started their studies in this school. -educational institution.
At MCAST, Prime Minister Robert Abela noted that the ongoing investment on a Research and Innovation Center and a new ICT Institute will lead to students having excellent facilities to train in vocational skills as well come out of MCAST and seize the best opportunities that the industries are offering.
“The changes with a mention in favor of the quality of life will be brought about in a tangible way by investing strongly in the skills of young Maltese and Gozitans who will then, as a result of the training they have taken, enter jobs that are not simple jobs but quality careers with a good income for them and their families,” explained Prime Minister Robert Abela and he noted that investment in skills is important in the environmental and digital crises that our country must go through.
Robert Abela explained how the initiative of strengthening the stipends in courses and in areas necessary for the country is aimed at giving an important direction in the needs of a country that wants to continue to grow economically but with an emphasis on the quality.
The Prime Minister also pointed out the need for investment in vocational education which in the past was put aside and it is this Government that will once again push and spur vocational education with the opening of the Center of Trades at MCAST. This is another electoral promise from the Government’s work program ‘Malta Flimkien’ which will be carried out where this center will help improve the vocational skills of students whose inclination is towards a trade.
“Manual workers are also important and those students and workers with aspiration towards this field should be given training and dignity because they are also contributors in an economy based on quality,” stressed Prime Minister Abela.
During his meetings with young people on the MCAST campus, the Prime Minister was accompanied by the Minister for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation Clifton Grima, the Deputy of the Government Amanda Spiteri Grech, the Principal of MCAST Joachim James Calleja and the Acting President of the MCAST Student Council Rohasia Zammit.
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