A Maltese perspective on the global financial crisis

Here’s a PULSE, the pro-Labour student association, complaining in the latest university newspaper:

The organisation said that it was preoccupied by the fact that the budget does not compensate students for the increased cost of living. “Gozitan students who are studying at the University of Malta have been affected directly because these pay for their electricity and water supply themselves,” the organisation said in a statement, while pointing out that bus fares have still not been not been reduced for post-secondary students.

Since Gozitan students live (so far) away from home, it’s not their parents who pay the bills anymore, so they’re fuming. And now post-secondary students aren’t coping with the 20-cent bus fare. The financial crisis on a Maltese scale, I suppose. Wait till they get a taste of the real world out there.