More than 13,000 students will attend the University of Malta during the 2026/27 academic year, including more than 5,500 new students starting their university studies this year. The figures were announced as Education and Sport Minister Byron Camilleri attended the official opening of the new academic year and visited students during Freshers' Week
Veteran Nationalist Party communications chief Nathaniel Attard has been removed as Alex Borg’s spokesperson, The Shift is informed, taking away decades of political and media experience from the party’s already limited communications team. Sources told The Shift that Borg’s assistant communicated the decision to Attard through an electronic message,
KSU has defended its approach to this year’s Freshers’ Week after seven student organisations and NGOs accused the council of pushing NGOs out of the event through participation fees starting at €1,550. Responding to the criticism, the University Students’ Council said Freshers’ Week is its “main source of income”, with money generated from the event
A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a 23-year-old man by stabbing him 18 times back in 2021 following an argument over a bottle of whiskey in Marsa. According to Times of Malta , a jury found Amo Frank Kwaku guilty of the 2021 murder of fellow Ghanaian national Isaac Kwabena Kyere, with Judge Consuelo Scerri Herrera
