In a bid to enhance sustainable water management MCAST and the Water Services Corporation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The new MoU will build upon three areas of ongoing and increasing collaboration between the two organisations, namely: Skilling, upskilling and re-skilling in water operations and technologies, the creation of an innovative water platform, and…

This year MCAST is celebrating its 20th anniversary since it opened its doors way back in 2001. To celebrate and mark this important milestone, the College has published a special edition of its official magazine, MCASTlink. This particular issue showcases MCAST’s twenty-year history and features the main College milestones and significant achievements. These include the…

MCAST will be preparing students who wish to embark on a career in the Malta Public Service. The Institute for the Public Services (IPS) has published a call for applications to identify suitable students from outside the Public Service to pursue a full-time course leading to a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Public Policy and…

The Malta College for Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) graduations postponed last November will be held in September. The 2020 graduations were delayed because of COVID-19 restrictions on social gatherings at the time. For the September celebrations, the College is rigorously following the health authority’s guidelines prioritising the safety of its community. Around 2350 graduands…

MCAST’s Journal of Applied Research and Practice is a Gold Open Access Journal published twice yearly. Papers published provide insight into a broad spectrum of ongoing research at MCAST, executed by over 100 MCAST academics and channelled through MCAST’s Applied Research and Innovation Centre. This latest issue of the MCAST Journal of Applied Research and…

The summer school was organised in Malta from 26 July to 6 August 2021, hosted by MCAST and AquaBioTech, focusing on climate change challenges in the (marine) environment in and around Malta. The EIT Climate-KIC ‘Journey’ is a Europe-wide summer school programme for master students and young professionals who want to create an impact to…

A children’s design competition organised by the Institute of Engineering and Transport within the Malta College for Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) in March 2021, has attracted around 100 entries. The design competition was aimed toward primary school children in Years 4, 5, and 6. To participate, students had to design the colour scheme for…

MCAST lecturer Richard Zahra, who was nominated by the Institute of Applied Sciences to contest the first edition of the Malta STEM Education Awards (2021),  has won the Distinguished STEM Educator Award in the Post-secondary category. This event was organised by the Science Centre (Pembroke) within the Directorate for Learning and Assessment Programmes (DLAP), under…