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The Chairman of the FELTOM Accreditation Council, Prof Mark Borg, recently presented a Certificate of Accreditation to Mr Paul L. Fenech of Magister Academy in the presence of the administration staff and teachers at the school premises of Magister Academy in St Julian’s. Prof Borg announced that following FELTOM members’ approval of the motion at the last AGM to waive the entrance fee for new members to join FELTOM in 2007, two non-member schools have applied to join FELTOM this year. Their membership is subject to accreditation and one of the schools has already been inspected by independent inspectors appointed by the Accreditation Council. Six FELTOM member schools applied for accreditation voluntarily this year to benefit from 50% discount on the accreditation fee before the accreditation becomes mandatory for FELTOM schools as from 1st January 2008. Some of these have already been inspected while the rest will have their inspections in the coming days and the outcome of these inspections will be announced in the near future.
 More schools being inspected for accreditation
Mr John Dimech, president of FELTOM, who was also present at the certificate award ceremony, remarked that FELTOM launched the Accreditation Scheme last year and two schools have already been accredited. Were it not for FELTOM, who has been behind the formulation of almost all legislation pertaining to the ELT sector in Malta, this sector would not have grown to the size it is today. Much of the EFL legislation was originally instituted by FELTOM and then co-opted by the education authorities, although this accreditation scheme goes much further. In view of FELTOM's objective, which is to raise standards, it has taken the accred¬itation scheme upon itself, rather than expecting the authorities to do so. Mr Dimech, however, hopes that the authorities will follow its lead in the near future.
6th August 2007 |
