Education Minister Announces New Board To ‘Improve Current System’ After Controversial School Comprehension
Education Minister Clifton Grima has declared that the ministry will set up a board to “establish the facts and issue recommendations to improve the current system” after news broke out that Year 11 students with learning disablities were given a controversial Maltese comprehension.
The task consisted of an article by Dalli heralding the government’s waste management strategy and it was blasted for being “Miriam Dalli propaganda”.
It was followed by questions, such as whether the text is about work that yielded “good results” or “bad results”. Students were also asked to “find a phrase from the text which shows that the economy generated a lot of wealth” and to explain in their own words why Dalli wrote the article.
Both Dalli and Grima denied any involvement in this comprehension, condemning it as unnecessary and stating that they had no idea of it until today.
“No ministry has access to exam papers or the content of the exam,” Grima wrote on social media, clarifying the situation.
He explained that there are autonomous structures and procedures that have been there for years and that aexist specifically to ensure that the process is managed by technical people at different levels in the educational sector, with no interference at a political level nor an administrative one.
“The ministry will set up a board to establish the facts and issue a number of conclusions and recommendations that lead to actions to be taken to improve the current system,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, Dalli assured that she had “absolutely nothing to do with the question that was asked during the Maltese exam paper in secondary schools.
“The first I heard of it was today thanks to the media.”
“This passage was taken from an opinion piece I wrote in a local newspaper. A passage with my name as a Minister should never have been included in an exam paper. I have children and I understand if someone’s name of a politician is annoying in an exam paper,” she wrote on social media.
She went on to say that “this unnecessary move” was not done to appease particularly in light of an ongoing coordinated political against her.
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