Funding for disabled students

Posted on by Keith Aquilina

Does funding for disabled students exist in Malta? What level of assistance is available? I am not aware about any vehicle allocating funding for disabled students who would like to further their study once they finish their obligatory schooling. Assistance in the purchase of tech may be pursued mainly through KNPD and FITA, but the level of help which is available is way below that available in compulsory education.

On its website, the Maltese national commission for higher education  advocates that apart from the usual student maintenance grants, ‘students with particular hardships or who face certain circumstances may apply for additional support’. This phrase gives an indication that  disabled students might have access to funding. Still this is not clear…

Related links:

Student maintanance grants legislation; https://www.nche.gov.mt/MediaCenter/PDFs/1_SMG_SL_327-178.pdf

FITA assist disabled students in buying a computer or loaning refurbished PCs; http://www.knpdarchives.org/fita/projects.htm

Inspire EU funding – http://inspire.org.mt/eufunds

EU Question http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=WQ&reference=E-2006-0049&language=EN

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Published by Keith Aquilina

Currently my professional role is that of Education Officer (Quality Assurance) within the Directorate for Quality & Standards in Education in the Ministry of Education, Malta. After eight years teaching Computing and ICT within a state secondary school, I moved to the Department of eLearning where my role focused on the organisation of national educational events of which the national eLearning awards and conference, Malta Robotics Olympiad and student competitions. In addition to the work within the Department of eLearning, as from 2011 I have taken the role of ICT coordinator within the Directorate for Lifelong Learning where for 5 years, I was involved in the development and organisation of ICT related courses within the directorate’s adult education centres and collaborating entities. In 2012, I completed my Masters studies in Online and Distance Education from the Open University. This blog started off as an online reflective diary for my studies in the Masters in Online and Distance Education with the Open Univeristy. As may be easily deduced, my main interest is in technology, learning and anything in between. Linkedin; mt.linkedin.com/in/keithaquilina/