Try to get services for a blocked drainage and you’ll get the answer. I don’t think a professional would want to ‘upgrade’ to that kind of work.

In the period around 2010, almost the same rules are still in place at FEMA. The only differences from what you said are:

1. an honours degree in economics is now a B.Com (Hons) 1 year course, no longer a B.A., and is read for after a 3 year B.Com general course;

2. in order to specialise in one area after a 3-year B.Com general course, and thus obtain B.Com (Hons) (five areas of specialisation are offered) or a B.A. (Hons) Accountancy, you would have to have chosen that area for your general degree, at which stage two areas must be chosen after the 1st year of the course.

The only B.A. (Hons) course offered by FEMA is in Accountancy.

The B.A (Hons) offered by the Faculty of Arts are based on very different rules.

Thus our beloved Dr. Muscat must have spent three years reading for a B.Com general degree, and one further year for his honours degree in public policy.

Only around five students graduate with honours in public policy every year, and this is not because a high level of IQ is needed for this course, but because public policy is not popular.

The concepts of Catholic social teaching, are still valid today, although they need to be adapted to present circumstances. This teaching has been called the Church’s hidden treasure and its main principles have often been repeated in Church documents – http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=4928&s=1.

Once there is common ground that wages are based on justice, one must ask whether wages must also reflect social justice. Is social justice a part of social corporate responsibility? In the UK there is lobby for the living wage and companies such as Barclays and KPMG are in fact supporting and implementing this concept – http://www.citizensuk.org/campaigns/living-wage-campaign/.

One also argue that the a living wage benefits business itself – http://www.fairpaynetwork.org/?page=case_for_business.

What? He wants our time for free, but then he wants businessmen and government to pay a living wage?
As long as it is somebody else’s money…

In the period around 1995, in the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy of the UoM, students first graduated as Bachelors of Commerce after a 3-year course. Then, they could choose a BA (Hons) in Public Policy or Management, each with a one year duration, or BA(Hons) in Economics or Accountancy, which I believe were of 2 years in each case.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100926/local/people-invited-to-offer-their-time-and-skills-to-the-pl

He expects to be running the country in two years’ time. This is the real tragedy.

All he can come up with is this living wage twaddle.

Daphne – you are right – I was thinking on the same lines. There is a good possibility that he does not have a BA in public policy but more likely a diploma, which is basically a 1 year undergraduate course.

The University offers an MA in European Studies over 3 semesters, so technically he could have graduated MA in 1997 but the actual graduation would have been 1998.

But as we are now being led to believe, Joe Muscat can do miracles!