I didn’t go to University in Malta. You’re missing the point of the article. We are talking about a set of people who think that having a degree makes them suitable candidates for a role in government.

I know very few people who didn’t go to university so qualifications to us are not a big deal. We saw going to university as a stepping stone into further education or prosperous careers. We didn’t see it as a ticket to government.

Here he goes again with his venim and poor syntax.

Lots of people understand ugly venim. You’re a perfect example of it. Learn this much, if nothing more: wilful ignorance is not an admirable quality.

Is that an ugly venim?
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Well, that goes without saying. I tend to forget because I was born in a family that was always in business. One tends to take those early lessons for granted. Thank you for reminding me.

[Daphne – Me too.]

She’d left university (or was in her final year) when Tal-Qroqq was being vandalised by the Labour thugs – not that she was exactly prominent in student circles in that context.

I suspect that you and most of your friends do not, as you allege, have a degree with honours. That would be unusual. It is more usual and commonplace to have an honours degree. In fact, it is more commonplace in the B.A. degrees that I know of at the Malta University, for the students to graduate with an honours degree than with a general degree.