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Title: Centre for Labour Studies : Biennial Report : 2017-2018 Abstract: I am delighted to, once again, submit to the reader this Biennial Report of the Centre for Labour Studies (CLS), the oldest centre at the University of Malta. This collection covers the two-year period 2017-2018. All faculties, institutes, centres and schools at the University of Malta are obliged to report on their workings on a regular basis, typically annually. The CLS has been submitting such reports unfailingly since 1982. It has shifted to a biennial format in order to develop a significant publication, complete with an overview of what has been achieved in the 24 months under scrutiny. Additionally, this creates an opportunity for the CLS-connected academic staff to put the proverbial pen to paper and submit a few articles that reflect critical views on current trends and developments in the areas that matter most to the CLS. These contributions have grown into a solid corpus of material over the years. The areas covered include human resource issues, industrial and employment relations, gender and development, occupational health and safety, career guidance and counselling, trade union and cooperative affairs. This testimonial is both an evaluative and formative exercise. The CLS submits its work and accomplishments for scrutiny and critical feedback, as an integral part of the quality assurance process underway at the University of Malta. At the same time, the reporting exercise offers an opportunity for the CLS itself to scrutinise its actions and to examine how effectively it expands its energies and resources, in the light of changing times and possibly changing priorities. I congratulate the CLS for the considerable amount of work that it continues to churn out, in terms of teaching and learning, research and outreach, with its core complement of three academic and three administrative staff members. During the period under review, CLS academic staff member Luke Fiorini completed his doctorate at the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK. And CLS stalwart (and honorary member on the CLS Board) Dr Frank La Ferla was honoured for his lifelong commitment to occupational health and safety with an honorary degree. [Introduction by Prof. Godfrey Baldacchino]

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Title: Introduction [Centre for Labour Studies : Biennial Report : 2017-2018] Abstract: All faculties, institutes, centres and schools at the University of Malta are obliged to report on their workings on a regular basis, typically annually. The CLS has been submitting such reports unfailingly since 1982. It has shifted to a biennial format in order to develop a significant publication, complete with an overview of what has been achieved in the 24 months under scrutiny. Additionally, this creates an opportunity for the CLS-connected academic staff to put the proverbial pen to paper and submit a few articles that reflect critical views on current trends and developments in the areas that matter most to the CLS. These contributions have grown into a solid corpus of material over the years. The areas covered include human resource issues, industrial and employment relations, gender and development, occupational health and safety, career guidance and counselling, trade union and cooperative affairs. This testimonial is both an evaluative and formative exercise. The CLS submits its work and accomplishments for scrutiny and critical feedback, as an integral part of the quality assurance process underway at the University of Malta. At the same time, the reporting exercise offers an opportunity for the CLS itself to scrutinise its actions and to examine how effectively it expands its energies and resources, in the light of changing times and possibly changing priorities.

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Title: Foreword [Centre for Labour Studies : Biennial Report : 2017-2018] Abstract: This publication allows us to reflect on the work carried out by the Centre. During the last two years, the Centre was concurrently offering a three-year Master Degree Course in Lifelong Career Guidance and Development; a part-time five year Honours Bachelor Degree course in Work and Human Resources (1st, 3rd and 5th year cohort); an Honours Bachelor Degree course, also part-time, in Occupational Health and Safety (1st and 3rd year cohort); and a Diploma course in Gender, Work and Society. During this period we also prepared the ground work for a new certificate course in the Practice of Cooperative Societies which is due to open in 2019. Most of our lectures are delivered in the evening, and like other years, most of our students were also concurrently working whilst studying with us. As at December 2018, the number of students within the Centre was 153 and we had 24 students graduating in November 2018.

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Title: Firsts, numbers and trends : gender at the University of Malta Abstract: During this year, 2019, the University of Malta (UM) will deservedly take some time to look back with pride and celebrate its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary as a state university. It became the ‘University of Malta’ in November 1769, after Grandmaster Pinto expelled the Jesuits who had been running the Collegium Melitense, the antecedent to the university, since 1592, and rechristened the university as a public institution. But this year UM is also acknowledging the hundredth anniversary from the enrolment of its first two female undergraduate students: Tessie Camilleri and Blanche Huber entered the University together in October 1919, the first choosing the Humanities and the other Medicine. This article takes the second commemoration as an excuse to reflect critically on the role of gender at the University of Malta (UM). It examines the stubborn progressive reduction of females from the highest academic ranks of the university, and tries to establish the main reasons for such a condition.

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