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| Understanding the Educational and Health Care System of Malta |
If you are planning to not merely to visit Malta but to relocate as well because of a job opportunity and you have children to think about, you need to consider two important things before you ship your family to a malta hotel.
First is the education in Malta and second is the kind of healthcare that the state gives to its citizens. You cannot just trap your family inside a malta hotel, you must take them out and let them experience the culture of driving in Malta Ask your local malta hotel for information about the primary and secondary schools of the state in terms of contact and enrollment. Primary school for children has been declared to be necessary and compulsory since 1946 and the compulsion of secondary education was declared in 1971. The students who are under the compulsory education are under the age bracket of five up to 16 years old. The state provides this compulsory education free to its citizens although there are also several schools run by the church and the private sector which can be found in the major islands of Malta and Gozo.
Most of the teachers’ salaries are also paid for by the state. Most of the schools are located in the downtown areas and are probably near some malta hotel. The education in Malta is patterned after the British School System with the Primary School lasting up to six years. At the age of eleven, students take a sit-in examination to determine if they qualify to enter the next level of learning which is the Secondary Education either at the church, in a school assigned or at a state school. At the age of 16, students are asked to take an exam again to make sure that they passed the obligatory subjects of Math, English and Maltese. At this stage, students have an option whether to proceed and continue studying in College for two years after which they take the matriculation exam. If the pass, they will be allowed to take an undergraduate degree or a diploma degree. University of Malta provides the higher levels of education. It is to be noted that 92.8% of the population are literate so communication with the people or locals in the island as well as with the employees in the malta hotel is easy.
Ask your malta hotels on what agencies you need to approach to know about the school system. Transferring to the educational system in Maltese will not be difficult since English and Maltese are used as a medium for discussion. In terms of health care, Malta ranked number five in the World Health Organization in the world’s health systems. While traveling, ask also your local malta hotel where the nearest hospital and clinic are in case of emergency Maltese health care is patterned after Great Britain which carries with it a solid doctor-delivered primary care supplemented by hospital care for patients. There are three major private hospitals: St. Philips Hospital, St. James Capua Hospital and Saint Mark’s Clinic. Malta, in the recent years has tried to advocate medical tourism.
If you are visiting the country to ask or seek for medical help, do not hesitate to inform your local malta hotel as to your needs to see special medical attention.
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