A politician or professional that includes his qualifications after his name shows how small-minded and parochial he/she is .

Secondly, in civilised countries, you occupy a post in government because you have a long string of success stories behind you to show for it not because you’ve just obtained your master’s and are a political arriviste.

Since Independence, this lethal mentality has been engendering a slow death for the country and has offered emigration as the only option to the best Maltese brains.

Farts like Schembri will swim but only because they are seconded by solid professionals (Edward Scicluna, in his case).

Also, serious universities offer MScs in Economics, not MAs.

Because, in Malta, when people can’t achieve something because they lack the credentials they blame it on politics. Maybe in his case it was a matter of positive discrimination.

Technically, Schembri should not be teaching – not at uni, nor in a school.

My point, Daphne, was that he suffered no discrimination despite his political convictions.

[Daphne – Why would he, if lecturers are not chosen by the government? There is clearly another form of abuse at work, though, because he certainly wasn’t chosen on merit. Somebody who knows insufficient grammar and little English shouldn’t be teaching others at tertiary level.]

It seems that he was appointed a university lecturer under the PN government. What was the rector thinking?

[Daphne – University lecturers are not appointed or selected by the government.]

H.P. Baxxter

There is nothing wrong in climbing the social ladder. What is pathetic is to make a big deal about it.

The University of Malta has an annual quality assessment for lecturers, if you please.

Who are you trying to kid, Juanito?

“Becoming the first member of his family to continue studies at the University of Malta”.

No matter how hard they try to look like ‘the high society’, no matter how many wine-tasting holidays and “syoots” and fast cars and vast villas they buy, it’s little phrases like these which give them away.

Confounded arriviste peasants.

From the link in Joe Fenech’s comment:

“Silvio received his education at the Luqa Primary School, at St. Augustine College and at the Junior Lyceum, prior to becoming the first member of his family to continue studies at the University of Malta, where he graduated in Bachelor Honours in economics as second upper. He resumed his tertiary education, specializing in economic studies and attaining a Masters degree in Economy from the University of Malta.”

And:

“Silvio contested the local council elections for Luqa on the Labour Party ticket, where at the age of 18, he became Malta’s youngest councillor.”

Seems like he’s had enough opportunity under a PN government. He was the first member of his family to continue his studies at the University of Malta. And then he became the youngest local councillor in Malta.

And he clearly has a Labour background.

Malta was already Taghna Lkoll up to 9 March 2013. Since then, it has become Tal-Laburisti Biss.

“he graduated in Bachelor Honours”…you do not graduate ‘in’ Bachelor. You graduate in economics or law or whatever other subject you have been reading. Although how this chap ever graduated in anything is beyond me.