Why is the Education Minister using a hotmail address for government business, rather than his gov.mt address?
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July 29, 2013 at 8:35am
And why is he talking and behaving on Facebook as though education initiatives are his personal business, and not government business?
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Mhux ghax jibza min xi vendikazzjoni. Forsi biex jkun jista jaghmel wahda.
They don’t even trust each other.
Evarist Bartolo is Owen Bonnici’s mentor. Maybe he will help him find a chief of staff.
If I were a member of parliament, a politician, I’d certainly wouldn’t like to be defined by a Facebook page.
Politics is about public speaking – about being in touch with the public, and by not staying in touch from behind a computer screen.
Because he’s largely uneducated.
Dan il-comment tad-dahk >.< imma ghandek ragun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj1TmOoPino
Can parents bring up their kids via their computer or Apple Iphone connection?
Same with politics; leaders need to be present.
I also cannot understand why the DOI tweets link you to the department’s Facebook page instead of to its website.
Facebook pages are updated faster than a website.
My guess is that Labour are transposing their Facebook campaign to government. I’m sure we’ll soon hear of an innovative official government voting system depending on the number of ‘likes’ given an on issue/ to a party.
Maybe as part of the exercise to reduce bureaucracy by 25%. (BTW, what’s so magical about this percentage? Reminds me of Energy bills)
33% is next year’s 25%.
You read it here first.
The criticism he is referring to is probably what was reported on RTK some two days ago – that all government schools named after saints are to be renamed, so that there won’t be any saints’ names, so as not to offend non-Catholics.
We can now probably look forward to schools named Duminku Mintoff, Muammar Gaddafi, Lorry Sant, Danny Cremona, etc.
This way they can be sure to offend everyone.
Today I heard a new one: Evarist is launching a public consultation on whether the (school) colleges should be ‘reshuffled’ to balance out the differences in student population between colleges.
Anticipating resistance to this idea (in terms of school uniforms, etc) he said it might turn out that after the consultation process everything will remain as is.
He’s not the only one. Many political appointees, chairmen and board members have adopted the same practice. It goes against government policy, but I guess is harder to investigate by the police when an issue crops up. And/or they don’t trust MITA.
Wait a second. So, if I opt not to be on Facebook or not to “friend” the Minister, then I will be disadvantaged by not knowing what is happening within the Ministry/Department of Education.Could this be a manner to channel info only to certain people?
I am rather concerned by the use of the word “ngenerali” by a learning support assistant. One hopes that she is not supporting any learning related to English.
UNBELIEVABLE!
On another note, Maltatoday reporting:
“Her husband Mario died of a heart attack on the same day in another location, but was then shot by his murderers and buried in the same Qajjenza field.”
He died of a heart attack and was then murdered! The mind boggles.
http://tvm.com.mt/news/2013/07/jason-galea-admits-to-killing-matthew-zahra-police-inspector-pullicino/
I think it s a very wise way of collecting personal data information and use it in the future without being accused of using government data bases.
Evarist Bartolo is hardly uneducated. On the contrary. He is both educated and very shrewd. As an old timer, he has somehow survived by subtly shedding his skin and remaining free from any significant political fallout. He portrays an image that is distant to his younger days as a communist wannabe and is keen to appear “young”, “trendy” and in touch with youth and students alike. One only need look at his performance (not appearance) on “Min Imissu” to understand what I am saying. In Bartolo’s mind, facebook and hotmail must all be part of his public image.
Without entering into the much debated stipend issue, of the Sant years, I still harbour some hope that Bartolo may prove to be more competent than his predecessor. With all respect to Dolores Cristina, she effectively sounded the death knell for the Junior Lyceum system, which despite its various shortcomings, supplied the majority of university undergraduates. Removing the accepted streaming system and integrating the lyceums into a college system, killed off all that was good about the Junior Lyceums system.
The Nationalist government policy of building a new state of the art state school every year was an initiative that was to be lauded. Some of the older schools were in shambles (although they were already in such a state in 1987 which means that the initiative came a little too late.) However, good schooling is much more than the sum of its parts. You need functional buildings, interactive white boards, overhead projectors, and even tablets! More importantly, you need teachers who actually have a vocation (for many teachers it is just a job). It also requires students who are like minded and who are capable of keeping the set pace. Even one dunce per class is enough to slow down the progress of the best students.
As they stand, Junior Lyceums now see race and work horses placed together with the remaining horses, that from a young age show no promise other than an intent to graze off social benefits for the rest of their life. A reflection of mixed society? Perhaps! Is it conducive to good education? Not necessarily? In the end, you may take a horse to the water you cannot, necessarily, make it drink!
So at such a crucial stage, can Bartolo and his government salvage all that was good in government education, or is it simply going to be allow it to keep heading to the dogs? Doing nothing is not really an option!
The new system also has streaming in most subjects so your ‘dunces’ will not really be with your ‘race horses’ where it matters most. In any case, independent schools and many of the church schools always had mixed ability classes and their ratios of undergraduates were invariably better than those of state schools, under any system.
Please bear in mind the magnitude of disempowerment thrown at a child of eleven when he/she is told that they cannot even go to the same school as their friends – the level of rejection can affect them for the rest of their lives. And yes, following the self-fulfilling prophecy theory, some could well end up on benefits. But they needn’t have, had they not been told they’re substandard at eleven. And, at that age, you really can’t tell what their potential is.
Some students peak for their Junior Lyceum exam and then fizzle off into failure, while others make up for lost ground in the senior school because they prefer and do better in that setting. Sending them off to area secondary schools will really not be an incentive to better themselves. On the contrary most used to be as discouraged as were their teachers who felt side-lined when sent to teach them.
Hot Mail. Just like the rest of the government.
Probably thinks it’s the cool thing to do.
Ara l-Ministru kemm hu minn taghna. Anke juza l-fejsbuk u hotmejl
This consultation and ‘Gvern li jisma’ thing is a big joke, and a waste of time.
I know for a fact that a decision was taken not to allow animals in circuses in Malta, well before they started the consultation process.
I agree with the decision, but certainly not with having a false and empty consultation process.
Why can’t they have the balls to say that they have taken a decision becasue that is what they think is the right thing to do?
You can tell him things away from prying eyes.
Like when are we going to take that camping holiday we always promised ourselves after watching Brokeback Mountain together?
He’s not the only one.There are other ministries that are applying for other internet connections outside the MITA network.