Tablets ‘just tools’

Labour Party education proposals went beyond the “technological giveaway” on offer by the Nationalist Party and would be geared towards maximising literacy, party leader Joseph Muscat said yesterday. PL education proposals had yet to be unveiled, Dr Muscat said, but would involve concerted investment in libraries, both local and national, and more decision-making power given to local teachers and school heads. “Tablets are just a tool – they must be put to good use. There are many issues which must be taken into account, not least problems highlighted by the Malta Union of Teachers, which is why we want to introduce them incrementally,” he said. The MUT had warned that introducing tablets would involve a learning curve and voiced concern over the maintenance of the tablets. Speaking in Qrendi during an open-air interview on One TV, Dr Muscat hammered home his anti-corruption message. “Politicians who have nothing to hide should welcome increased scrutiny. It is those who don’t fight corruption who are corrupt,” he said. Gone were the days when democracy worked in five-year cycles, with citizens blindly following their elected representatives in the periods in between, Dr Muscat...