@Luigi

With a first class honours degree most Universities allow you to enrol directly on a PhD programme thus skipping the masters. So yes, a person can complete his PhD by age 24.

Dear nathalie,

You re jelous of the ghaxaq people, in what field have you graduated by the way you come from high ridge?

Stupid comment

Ja sahhara kerha!!! Idhol fuq l-internet, ja qahba stupida, u ikteb ‘Konrad Mizzi’ u studja sew l-esperjenzi li ghandu ma kumpaniji kbar barranin bhal Pcubed u Moorhouse, qabel ma tiftah dak il halq kbir l-ghandek! Filkas zommu mghaluq u ifthu biss meta jaqbadni l-bewl.

Kemm niehu pjacir naqlalek ja mara kerha.

U iva jien lejburist!! U tkaxkira ghandkom ja qatta ndannati!!

Foxx kemm ghandek!

Mwa

For fark’s sake, cut your bullshit, Luigi.

In the UK it’s easier to get your PhD even by 23.

Most undergraduate degrees are already compliant with the Bologna Process and are three years long (i.e. you submit your dissertation and can graduate with honours after three years, not after four, as is still the case with the majority of courses at UoM).

You can then apply for a PhD with just a first class honours [undergraduate] degree. You don’t need to spend another year sitting for a Master’s if you have a first class honours degree.

It’s only us stupid Maltese students who fall for this trap due to a lack of, or purposely misleading, information.

[Daphne – It all depends on the university.]

Why do you expect him to have anything more than a diploma in finance? He’s not an economist or a finance guru or however people like to style themselves as these days.

I’ve yet to read his thesis (I don’t like the guy, but it looks like a very interesting subject), but I don’t think his supervisor and the viva board would have allowed him to keep a whole chapter dedicated to 1996-1998 if it contributed nothing to the discussion.

So please keep your partisan opinions to yourself when discussing the academic merits of something.

“At my age that would be ridiculous.”

Why is getting a PhD at your age ridiculous? I seem to remember you mentioning that you did your undergrad degree as a mature student.

[Daphne – Yes, Qeghdin sew: a mature student of 29.]

Some capable people may face circumstances which prevent them from dedicating the first 22 years of their life entirely to academia. What’s wrong with that? Same goes for a PhD.

Besides, getting your PhD in physics or any other theoretical subject at 23/24 is quite normal. But getting a PhD in business at 23/24 is only considered a sign of superficial analysis on the doctorate student’s part.

Some top MBA programmes require students to have 7 years of managerial experience before they’re even admitted, precisely because the whole point of business studies is to focus on case studies. Now you can imagine how equipped a 21 year old can be to contribute to the field…

BTW, Nottingham’s business school is one of the better ones.

[Daphne – Not interested. I am not even remotely academically-inclined. I never was. My motivation for reading for a doctoral thesis would be roughly zero. In my 20s and early 30s I had the energy and inclination to sit down and read less than thrilling books and write papers and research after a long day of work, children and housekeeping, but like hell am I going to do it now, even if the children have dropped out of the equation. As for an MBA, I would rather be pegged out and eaten alive by driver ants than do anything so mind-numbingly dull.]

Unfortunately, Malta is an island without any fuel resources depending mainly on imported heavy fuel oil which is low cost and convenient energy source and a smart idea for preventative maintenance and safe.

There are ideas to reduce C02 emissions by mixing water with fuel to creat emulsion. Natural gas is the best and most clean fuel and has the advantages of burning cleaner and more efficient than other forms of fossil fuels.

However, natural-gas can be much costly than heavy fuel oil and to convert to natural gas is easy but gas to be imported is dangerous unless it reaches Malta via a pipe line and this is very expensive.

In my opinion, Malta can only generate electricity using heavy fuel oil and simultaneously introduce as a stand-by the Interconnector hopefully, Malta can stike oil, this time, on one of the three blocks on offshore drilling.