The government has allocated more than €250,000 for summer catch-up classes to help pupils whose education was affected by COVID-19.
The investment was announced by Education Minister Justyne Caruana and the parliamentary secretary for EU funds, Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi, who said that the programme will be co-financed by European funds.
Lessons will be provided to primary and secondary students who will be able to revise the work done in the scholastic year.
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Caruana said an initial internal study about school attendance during the 2020/2021 scholastic year showed that there was a high level of absenteeism from a substantial number of students.
Gozo needs its own equipment to analyse COVID-19 tests as well as a contact tracing team focused solely on the island, Nationalist Party MP Chris Said has argued.
Said said that Gozitans are currently waiting for more than two days to receive results of their swab tests, with contact tracing efforts also lagging behind.
“A year has passed since the beginning of the pandemic, and the government was unable to invest or force [Gozo hospital operators] Steward to invest in an RT-PCR machine for Gozo,” he said.
“We have lost all control over how contact tracing is being done and there are those who are contacted a week later after having come into contact with a positive person.”
Republic Day Honorees | Charmaine Gauci, public health czar, made Officer of Order of Merit
Cardinal Mario Grech, Prof. Charmaine Gauci and pathologist Christopher Barbara, Brigadier Jeffrey Curmi, and Gozitan band The Tramps honoured in Republic Day honours list
13 December 2020, 12:20pm
by Matthew Vella
On Republic Day each year, the President, on behalf of the government and people of Malta, pays public tribute to a number of Maltese citizens who distinguish themselves in different fields of endeavour, by appointing them to the National Order of Merit or to the Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika, or by awarding them the Midalja għall-Qlubija or the Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika.