Post March 2013: Institute of Tourism Studies flunks EU quality audit. Fails in 10 of 11 sections.

The story is in the Times of Malta.

The escalating mess at the Institute of Tourism Studies, with cronies packed onto the payroll, lecturers allowed to twiddle their thumbs in Gozo while collecting a full-time salary, a patchy curriculum, a director who filched food from the kitchens, and cuts in the food and training budget to pay for the increased payroll bill, have taken their toll on the college under the stewardship of Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis.

The Institute of Tourism Studies failed an EU quality assurance audit conducted in May last year by a panel of EU experts, who failed it in 10 of 11 sections. These ranged from the institute’s transparency to course planning and information management.

The college will face further upheaval shortly when it is moved out of its present convenient location to the cut-off Smart City compound, so that its current premises can be replaced by a Hard Rock hotel developed by prominent 2013 switcher and Labour donor Silvio Debono of the Seabank Hotel in Mellieha.