On the 17 and 18th November the national Workshops on ICT were held at the University of Malta. University IT students presented the results of their research to an academic and professional audience.
It is very encouraging that such a variety of theses have been presented to the audience and that, despite the size of the country, the university can offer to its students an environment in which IT research can be done and ultimately their results can be of practical utility to the industry”. “Unfortunately, insufficient funds are available to the academics to offer a better research environment. Research is capital in every society. A more worrying fact is that the issue of intellectual property is still unresolved at the University, and that academics still cannot be the full owners of their inventions.
The Maltese government should abandon the idea of reducing our university to the grade of a teaching university and instead to give all academics the tools to be able to devote their time to hard research and innovation, which constitute the real soul of any academic institution. It is through research that academics can give back the best, cutting-edge and up to date knowledge back to their students.
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