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Education Procurement in Malta

CountryProfile_MALTA.pdf

Numbers

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Number of schools K-12 Number of teachers K-12 Number of students K-12 Number of computers per student K-12
114[1] 7.192 (2018)[2] 65.780 (2017)[2] 0,19 (2012)[3]

Sources:
[1]List of schools (accessed 25.03.20), Ministry of Education Malta
[2]Eurostat, Education and Training statistics
[3] Digital Agenda for Europe: A Europe 2020 Initiative

Legislation of Education

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National Curriculum Framework Regulations, 2013 (Legal Notice 69 of 2013)

Organisations

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Organization responsible for education Role of the organization Website
Ministry of Education and Employment (MEDE) Responsible for all publicly funded schools. There is no regional level and the management and governance of education take place at central and local levels.

Tasks and responsibilities:

  • to prepare educational legislation
  • to make decisions e.g. about their share within the state budget
https://education.g
ov.mt/en/Pages/e
duc.aspx
Permanent Secretary The top civil servant in MEDE

assisted by the following three Directors General (DGs) administering the three respective Directorates of Education:

  • Directorate for Quality and Standards in education (DQSE): responsible for setting and monitoring standards and ensures the quality of teaching both in state and non-state schools
  • Directorate for Educational Services (DES) provides the physical infrastructure and the resources and provides support services to colleges, educational staff, parents and students
  • Directorate for Corporate Services (DCS): responsible for the provision of central support service and the coordination of the corporate activities of the departments falling under the MEDE. It provides support to these departments on issues regarding financial planning and management, human resource management, procurement and office management. Its tasks include the harmonization and creation of MEDE’s business plans, financial forecasts and annual reports.
School councils Each public school has a school council including teachers, parents and students. The school councils play a consultative role to the senior management team of each school.
Colleges All state schools are part of the Colleges. Each College has its own legal personality. Each College Principal can take decisions concerning schools within the College. The College principal fulfils the chair role in the Council of Heads for the schools within the respective college. The most important role of the Council of Heads is to ensure the creation of the common identity.

On the basis of the Education Act, every town and village should have its own primary school. The majority of the primary schools have their kindergarten attached to them. The primary schools send their student to the secondary school in the same College.

 
Source:
European Commission / EACEA National Policies Platform / Eurydice / Malta Overview:
https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/malta_en

Funding of education

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Type of schools Source of funds
State schools Publicly funded
Catholic schools Publicly funded
Independent schools Privately financed through tuition fees
 
Source: Ministry of Education Malta

Public expenditure on education ISCED (2011) (million EUR)

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Year Primary education Lower secondary education Upper secondary education Total
2012 74,9 52,6 104,7 232,2
2013 83,1 58,3 112,0 253,4
2014 88,0 54,7 112,5 255,2
2015 93,1 67,3 125,8 286,2
2016 103,9 74,7 116,2 294,8
 
Source: Eurostat (online data codes: educ_uoe_fine01)

Expenditure on educational institutions ISCED (2011) (Million EUR)

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Year Expenditure Primary education Lower secondary education Upper secondary education Total
2012 Current expenditure 78,3 50,9 93,8 223,0
Capital expenditure 1,2 5,3 8,4 14,9
Total 79,5 56,2 102,2 237,9
Share of capital expenditure (%) 1,5 9,4 8,2 6,3
2013 Current expenditure 89,2 59,6 107,0 255,8
Capital expenditure 2,1 4,5 7,7 14,3
Total 913 64,1 114,7 270,1
Share of capital expenditure (%) 2,3 7,0 6,7 5,3
2014 Current expenditure 92,7 54,8 100,2 247,7
Capital expenditure 3,9 4,6 8,7 17,2
Total 96,5 59,4 109,0 264,9
Share of capital expenditure (%) 4,0 7,7 8,0 6,5
2015

 

Current expenditure 95,1 65,1 110,9 271,1
Capital expenditure 5,2 9,4 16,5 31,1
Total 100,3 74,5 127,4 302,2
Share of capital expenditure (%) 5,2 12,6 13,0 10,3
2016 Current expenditure 103,4 71,0 102,1 276,5
Capital expenditure 7,2 10,4 16,2 33,8
Total 110,6 81,4 118,2 310,2
Share of capital expenditure (%) 6,5 12,8 13,7 10,9
 
Source: Eurostat (online data code: educ_uoe_fini01)

Investment plan for education / ICT in education

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Year Amount in (€) Main pillars of investments Share of pillars (%)
2016 €15.4m laptops, 3D printers, scanners n/a


Sources:
www.independent.com.mt/articles/2016-01-25/health/15-4-million-education-investment-will-provide-new-laptops-3D-printers-and-scanners-6736152256

Procurement Procedure

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Public procurement system is centralised. There is one central departmental agency being responsible for all national level procurement procedures, and this agency also acts as the only central purchasing body. The majority of the public procurement contracts are handled by individual central and also local government contracting authorities.

Department of Contracts (DoC) within the Ministry of Finance: is the central public procurement body. Its tasks:

  • to outline public procurement legislation and policy
  • to prepare guidelines and instructions
  • to collect statistical data
  • to create annual monitoring reports about the functioning of the public procurement system
  • to provide legal advice to contracting authorities together with the Attorney General
  • acts as the only central purchasing body for contracts which value exceeds 120 000 EUR
  • has the right to establish ad-hoc committees for the role of monitoring the procedures regarding contracts exceeding 120 000 EUR.
  • within DoC, the General Contracts Committee provides support through information collecting and investigation of claims of irregularities as well as making recommendations on tender decisions both to DoC and local contracting authorities.

 

Local councils have the authority to administer their own public procurement processes. Contracts with a value between 6 000 EUR and 120 000 EUR are procured through departmental calls for tender with only a limited contribution from DoC.

Two appointed main supervisory bodies:

1. National Audit Office (NAO)

  • issues independent supervision on public organisation including their public procurement procedures.
  • creates a thematic analysis of the effectiveness of the public procurement system regularly including procedures carried out in the framework of EU-funded projects
  • Public Accounts Committee is the most important entity within the NAO whose responsibility is to assess and examine the financial administration of the public sector. Its tasks also include the promotion of improvements if they are needed and to encourage the economic, efficient and effective use of the public sources.

2. Internal Audit and Investigation Department (IAID)

  • carries out audits on different areas of government policies. The report created by IAID is not publicly available.

 

Public Contracts Review Board:

  • responsible for receiving complaints from bidders taking part in tenders exceeding 10 000 EUR of value
  • appeals against the decision of the Review Board can be made to the Court of Appeal.

 

Source:
European Commission / EACEA National Policies Platform / Eurydice / Malta Overview:
https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/malta_en
Public procurement – Study on administrative capacity in the EU Malta Country Profile:
https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/policy/how/improving-investment/public-procurement/study/country_profile/mt.pdf

LEA contact

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Ashleigh McLennan
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
ashleigh.mclennan@iclei.org

 

 

LEA – 779803: This project has been funded with support from the European Commission in the context of the H2020 Programme. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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