A new disciplinary board, chaired by the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy, Prof. Frank Bezzina, was tasked to review the decision to fail over 250 first-year students.

The other members of the Board were Prof. Vincent Cassar, Deputy Dean and Mr Zane Camilleri as student representative.

The Faculty came into possession of screenshots from a Facebook Messenger Chat alleging collusion between a number of students during an exam, EMA1008: Quantitative Analysis for Business 1.

Those students involved in the chat were granted a fair hearing by being individually allowed to explain their participation in the chat.

This also allowed the Board to determine the extent of their involvement in the matter. In those cases where it transpired that students indeed colluded with others, the Board reprimanded them for their unacceptable behaviour. These students were further penalised by having their original marks deducted according to the degree of severity of their collusion.