The second volume of the Education Research Monograph Series (ERMS) has recently been published 'Communication and Power in the Colleges: Reviewing the Networks and Vectors of Communication and Power in the First Years of Malta’s State Colleges Reform', by Alexander Spiteri. This volume focuses on the concept of networking between schools and the policy initiative taken in 2006 to promote its institutionalization in the compulsory state sector. It looks at how the concept of school networking was adapted to the Maltese context of a small, post-colonial island state, leading to a mismatch between the rhetoric of the reform and its actual enactment.
Alexander Spiteri was one of the first group of College Principals in 2008, and was later Director for Quality Assurance and Director for Curriculum Management and eLearning within the Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education from 2009 to 2013. He is now Senior Executive in the Quality Assurance Unit of the University, and is finishing an educational doctorate with the Institute of Education, University of London.
The ERMS peer-reviewed book series is edited by Prof. Carmel Borg and focuses on specialised and interdisciplinary issues related to education. ERMS is intended to enable researchers from many disciplines to share their findings and, as a result, stimulate dialogue on established and emerging topics in education within the international community of researchers, practitioners, students and other stakeholders interested in the field.
The Series forms part of a much larger project, the Malta Review of Educational Research (MRER) Project, a research-dissemination programme that aims to showcase Maltese educational research as well as to create communities of reflection by bringing together academics, practitioners, policy makers and educational administrators to discuss research generate locally and internationally.
