https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/53506 2026-04-11T11:38:27Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/53497 Title: Spirit of experiment : the proposed Santa Lucija secondary school Authors: Falzon, Michael Abstract: Government's commitment to build a new secondary school at Sta Lucija is an indication of its modern direction in the face of today's needs in the education sector in Malta and of the fact that, despite the media explosion and all recent developments in information technology, the school will certainly remain the focal venue for information exchange and student interaction. In March, 1992, the Education Division of the Ministry of Education and Human Resources undertook a global audit of accommodation in state secondary schools. The secondary sector was divided into four areas: boys' junior lyceums, girls' junior lyceums, boys' general secondary schools and girls' general secondary schools. The most glaring revelation arising from this survey was the fact that whereas the average population in State-run junior lyceums for boys stood at around 800, in the case of girls' junior lyceums, the average student population was around 1 ,200. This anomaly was further compounded by the fact that private schools were serving to relieve the pressure from State schools in the boys' sector whereas in the girls' sector a reverse trend was observed, with girls from private schools at primary level moving on to state secondary schools. Among the recommendations arising from the report was the need to address the equity between boys' and girls' secondary schools with the construction of a girls' secondary school in the area between Blata 1-Bajda and Zejtun. 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/53496 Title: Planning in education : local school buildings Authors: Mintoff, Edwin Abstract: A paper by Dr. Edwin Mintoff edited from a study by Alexander Borg, Christopher Borg, and Victor Sladden. This study formed part of a thesis project presented in 1993/1994 in partial fulfillment of the degree leading to B.E & A (Hons.) in the Urban Design Stream which Dr. Mintoff co-ordinates. 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/53495 Title: An interview with Colin Stansfield-Smith Abstract: The following text is a transcript of an interview with Sir Colin Stansfield Smith, a British architect and academic. 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/53289 Title: The typology of the school building : its importance in educational policies and practices Authors: Falzon, Joe Abstract: The typology of the school has never been easy to define. All kinds of buildings have at one time or another been used as educational establishements, and so many different parameters have been used to define the effectiveness or otherwise of these institutions, that the role of the school building itself has either been ignored or considered of secondary importance when compared to more direct concerns such as curriculum development, mass education, etc,. However, there are very clear indications that the building is of primary importance when it comes to assessing the effectiveness of a school, a fact recognised as early as the nineteenth century by an English Victorian headmaster when he wrote: Whatever men may say or think, the Almighty Wall is, after all, the supreme and final arbiter of schools. I mean no living power in the world can overcome the dead, unfeeling, everlasting pressure of the permanent structures, of the permanent conditions under which work has to be done... Never rest till you have got the Almighty Wall on your side, and not against you. Never rest till you have jot all the fixed machinery for work, the best possible. The waste in a teacher's workshop is the lives of men. 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z