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The first European Partner Conference BaltFIRST-2013 will be held from the 17 to 22 September, 2013 in Trakai, Lithuania. For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST®) is an international non-profit organization. FIRST’s (...)

Biology students’ research presented
Research projects on topics related to aquaculture, botany, conservation biology, genetics, freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecology, marine pollution, biofuel production and the use of plant extracts against microbes and tumour cells were (...)

Learning the art of living sustainably
A group of students from the University’s Junior College together with peers from The Netherlands, Italy, and Germany, are taking part in a multilateral Comenius school partnership project aimed at giving them a global vision of sustainable (...)

Three chemistry students from St Margaret’s Girls’ Secondary School, Żejtun, recently placed second in the cinema section of an international competition forming part of the EU-funded Immersion in the Science Worlds through the Arts (ISWA) (...)

2013 NSTF Science Expo
Primary and secondary schools are invited to visit the National Student Travel Foundation (NSTF) Science Expo from April 15 to 19 at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta. Schools wishing to attend or seeking more information are to e-mail (...)

Children to learn what to do if tsunami strikes
Maltese schoolchildren will learn how to deal with a tsunami as part of a project being drawn up for three primary schools. The aim is to make young pupils aware of the phenomenon, as Malta tries to prepare for such an event, unlikely as it may (...)

Maltese students do well in environmental competition
Five investigative journalism videos and articles on environmental issues submitted by Maltese secondary and post-secondary students in the inter­­national Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) competition recently won some of the top three (...)

Science vision in the dark?
"The consultation document ‘A Vision for Science Education in Malta’, published last year by the Education Ministry, while claiming to be visionary, proposes doing away with Physics, Chemistry and Biology in schools, to be replaced by (...)

How to make Maths harder
An other regarding how to make maths for students a little bit harder. Prof. Josef Lauri from the University’s Department of Mathematics states that "Parents were told not to allow their children to write numbers under each other when adding or (...)

EU needs to boost spending on education and creativity
An interesting article was found on an online newspaper in Malta. This article is related to how "Education and creativity are essential for growth, jobs and innovation, especially in these times of crisis". Link to this is what the EU is doing for (...)

STENCIL 1° INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
The first STENCIL International conference will take place Wednesday the 30 of November in Nancy, France. The STENCIL consortium will be there to tell you more about this project, including the participation from Malta.