Verdict
Maltese students are in class for fewer hours and typically enjoy longer holidays than almost any other students in Europe.
EU experts recommend that secondary school students should receive a minimum of 873 hours of tuition each year. Maltese students, by comparison, receive just 691 hours.
Students will enjoy 138 holidays this academic year, amongst the highest in Europe. These include 90 days of summer holidays. While this is in line with some other Mediterranean countries, it is far more than almost all Nordic and central or western European countries.
Despite this, Malta continues to spend a relatively high portion of its GDP on education with questionable outcomes.
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MUT disputes figures
In a reaction, the Malta Union of Teachers disputed the figures published by the European Commission, saying that “the Maltese data in the report is false”.
MUT argued that, rather than the 691 hours of tuition that the EU cites, Maltese primary schools students were in school for 836.5 hours in the 2022/23 academic year, while secondary schools students had 873 hours of compulsory schooling.
This, the MUT said, means that Maltese primary students had longer tuition times that the European average, while secondary students were in line with the EU average.
Both EU reports remain publicly available on the European Commission’s website.
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