Category: MCAST_NEWS

October 8, 2026 Adam Cassar

More than 8,000 students have registered at MCAST for the 2026/2027 academic year, including 4,120 newly registered students. The College welcomed them during Freshers’ Week, held between Monday 5 and Friday 9 October across three of the College’s campuses. Freshers’ Week opened at the Paola Campus, which hosted activities from Monday to Wednesday. Mosta Campus…

October 2, 2026 communications

  MCAST has opened the 2026–27 academic year as the College marks 25 years of vocational and professional education in Malta.  The Opening Ceremony, themed “Gratitude While Looking Forward”, brought together students, educators, staff and alumni at the MCAST Main Campus in Paola. Minister for Education and Sport Byron Camilleri, President of the Board of…

October 1, 2026 Adam Cassar

MCAST marked its 25th anniversary with the “Let’s Celebrate” event at its Main Campus in Paola on 25 September 2026. The event reflected on MCAST’s development since it opened to students on 28 September 2001. President of the Board of Governors Horace Laudi and Principal and CEO Stephen Vella joined current and former staff, alumni,…

September 7, 2026 communications

The Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) has secured €1.3 million in European funding for two new research facilities in engineering and advanced manufacturing. The projects were announced at MCAST by Minister for Education and Sport Byron Camilleri and Minister for European Funds, Social Dialogue and Consumer Protection Keith Azzopardi Tanti. The first…

September 2, 2026 communications

A graduation ceremony was held to celebrate the achievements of 306 participants from 38 different nationalities who successfully completed the second stage of “I Belong”, Malta’s national integration programme. Organised jointly by the Human Rights Directorate and MCAST, the programme supports newcomers in developing the knowledge, language skills, and cultural understanding needed to actively participate…

September 1, 2026 communications

MCAST Senior Lecturer and photographer Therese Debono presented her project BLANK at the 14th edition of Ragusa Foto Festival, an international festival of contemporary photography held in the UNESCO-listed setting of Ragusa Ibla, Sicily. Founded and directed by Stefania Paxhia, with Alessandra Mauro as artistic director, the 2026 festival explored the theme Archetipi Mediterranei (Mediterranean…

August 13, 2026 communications

As part of a series of events and publications marking MCAST 25th anniversary, the College has published MCASTlink Issue 75, an edition centred on innovation and the future direction of the College. This latest publication forms part of the wider anniversary programme celebrating MCAST’s achievements over the past quarter century while looking ahead to the…

August 11, 2026 communications

The Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) has been pleased to announce that KampuSajf 2026: Playgrounds for Emergence has been a success, the event having taken place from 6 to 8 August at the MCAST Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA) Campus in Mosta, and the fourth edition of the festival was organised…

July 31, 2026 Adam Cassar

The Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) and the Arts Council Malta (ACM) have today entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which establishes a three-year collaboration between the two bodies. The agreement was signed at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta on 30 July 2026 by Mr Stephen Vella, Principal and CEO of MCAST,…

July 29, 2026 communications

Prospective students have until 14 August to submit online applications for full-time courses at the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST). Courses are available across the College’s seven institutes and four campuses in Paola, Mosta, Qormi and Gozo. The 2026/2027 Course Catalogue details every programme, including entry requirements and progression routes, helping applicants…