Robert Musumeci sets a cracking good example to other law students
Law student Robert Musumeci (centre) at a Labour mass meeting
I have received an email of complaint (protest?) from a law student who is just going up to fourth year.
His course mates include Consuelo Herrera’s son, Jose Herrera’s daughter, and Consuelo Herrera’s boyfriend (MEPA consultant and Labour government appointee Robert Musumeci).
The email says:
In the three years we have been at university, Robert hasn’t been to more than five lectures in total, and I’m being generous.
When there are lectures where we need to sign an attendance sheet, Alex Herrera (his girlfriend’s son) signs in his name. What a bloody joke.
My friends and I make a huge effort to go to boring, useless lectures and this idiot gets his girlfriend’s son to sign for him. And this happens every time. The rest of us are pissed off.
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How is a MEPA consultant also a full-time student at university? And how has he reached fourth year if he misses all his lectures?
Robert Musumeci is probably an undiagnosed genius.
Like the man said, someone else is signing in for him.
Do you think anybody at the university is going to stick their neck out by rapping a Labour Party favourite on the knuckles?
I’d be interested to know how many lectures Miriam Dalli goes to – she’s got a full-time job at Vodafone.
Or Charlon Gouder, with his full-time job at One News and now in PS Jose Herrera’s office.
We’re talking about people on the make here, and let’s not forget it.
X’ ezempju tal-meritokrazija.
Moreover, don’t all lecturers know who Robert Musumeci is?
How do they all allow this rampant abuse to go on, right under their noses, when they all know that this particular individual never sets foot inside the lecture halls and never attends their particular lectures?
In my day, students who never made an appearance at certain lectures were given grief during orals and verbal examinations – on the other hand, some others seem to be given a very different kind of treatment these days. What a joke the law course has become.
Who is the second from the right?
Labour MP Silvio Schembri. The PM appointed him to head the parliamentary group on financial and economic affairs.
His wife Deandra Schembri (aged 27 and a recent law graduate) has been appointed to the Police Board and helped reach the decision on Elton Taliana.
Dishonoris Causa
That’s incorrect. He attended zero lectures.
Has Robert paid back the 6000 Euros of public funds paid to him in excess when he was Chair of BICC. We ought to know.
Just goes to show what a bloody farce the law course is in Malta.
You could hold a full-time job while you’re enrolled on a six-year FT course. Not to mention the sort of people with no intellect who sail through. Kemm ibatu id-dottori.
Dear Rector & Dean of the Faculty of Laws
I hope you’ll both have the decency to take action. Lectures are delivered by lecturers…who lectures this rascal?
Jose Herrera did something similar to get his marine licence. He used to turn up for attendance and disappear.
I am no law student and never was and do not aspire to be, but from what I hear from previous law students, lectures in the law course are read out from notes which do not change from year to year and thus are passed on by the students from year to year.
So it is not difficult to pass your exams without attending. That’s why we get people like Debono and others graduating from the law course.
What a disgrace.
In less than 6 months they are already uncontrollable.
U il-Prim Ministru hlief jigri l’hemm u l’hawn donnu ma jaghmilx.
Why don’t they just change the law course to an online distance learning course? It seems that it is quite easy to pass the exams without attending any lectures.
Remind me never to use his services. Does not bode well. Crap architect and crappier lawyer.
I would cross his name out if someone else dares to sign in for him.
Mhux ghalhekk dejjem jilghaqu. Taht il-Labour dejjem hekk kienu, kollox hu possibli. It-tfal taghna jibqaw sat-tlieta ta filghodu jistudjaw u dawn Alla ibierek jaghaddu minghajr ma morru l-lectures. Jekk thares lejn il-gurnalisti ta’ One News kwazi kollha lahqu avukati.
They used to say that the best way to get to a man’s heart is through his belly – seems like the best way to convert politicians is through their loins…
Is he being paid stipend, too?
[Daphne – Students who work don’t receive a stipend. At least, that’s how it was in my day.]
If the course followed is not the person’s first, that is, someone has already passed from a course, and now that person has applied for another course, then they are not entitled to a stipend.
Unless the course is a doctorate, in which case the stipend is given, even if this is their second course at university. The only courses eligible for this scheme are the Doctor of Medicine and Surgery course, and the Doctor of Laws course.
It is humanly impossible to pass all LLB exams, including that killer of civil obligations, when you are involved with hundreds of clients u alla jbierek tigi minn ta’ l- ewwel, and 100 poor students are risking their future if they don’t pass their obligations resit exam next week! Something is wrong.
He’s got an ace in-house tutor.
As far as i know, when enrolling to the LLD course, there is a box which one has to tick declaring that one does not have a full time job.
I suppose everyone knows who Robert Musumeci is and therefore when he applied they should have questioned how he could possibly go to lectures.
The rest of us students get a warning when we miss three lectures and he has missed them all over three years and is allowed to continue up into fourth year.
I was ready to bring this issue up had they not allowed one of us to sit for the exam due to missing three lectures as this guy never turned up.
A hundred of us failed Obligations, some of us by even 3 marks and are risking repeating a whole year.
I can assure you that most of us who failed attended all lectures and many of us even have straight As in other subjects. Yet Robert seems to pass with flying colours year after year without being at a single lecture and while working as a very busy architect and now even MEPA consultant, and in the evening he is either on television or radio.
He even asks for our notes.
But the Law Faculty seems to let him do as he pleases and instead picks on students who sre not public figures and who do not have any power to defend themselves and so instead give up.
I seriously hope something is done about this man.
law student, I sincerely hope that the utmost is done, in all institutions to eradicate abuse.
The university authorities and the Faculty of Law have no choice but to take the proper action to do away with this abuse and discipline the perpetrators.
Robert Musumeci and Alex Herrera should not be given preferential treatment because of their political connections (or in Alex’s case, his mother’s).
As for Musumeci, the first time I saw him, he came across as another St. Dominic Savio, all holy and just and an upright member of society.
But I was proved very wrong in my assessment.
Tina B note that person in question has been in the course for 3 years, thus these shenanigans were happening under the PN administration.
But this is all the more proof that it is irrelevant which party is in power as the clique’s roots run deep in this country.
It is a shame that such things occur and continue to do so, however one could adapt the colloquialism ‘don’t hate the player hate the game’. For if there is opportunity for such abuse one may rest assured that there will be abusers, such a fact is inherent in the very nature of society. Heqq X’taghmel hux? Stamp your feet? Play the system too?
Emigrate?
Emigrate.