During a week long academic conference consisting of members from all over the EU, Minister Evarist Bartolo describes current educational programs and standardized testing and how they should be expanded to accommodate students and individuals outside of the standard academic norm. Bartolo briefly describes how little change has been made in the previous thirty years, and points out the separate areas which could be expanded.
An EU academic conference highlighted the importance of non-common core subjects.
Two members of separate Malta action committees as well as an EU Social Dialogue Minister mention the difficulties caused by rigid school assessment boards and the vital change needed throughout the EU to eliminate the loss of valuable educational opportunity to those who currently don’t meet the current testing standards. They admit there are quite a few obstacles to face, but stress the importance of each student’s potential and the need for testing outside the common core subjects.
The way our programmes are designed, the way most teaching takes place, the assessment, they are all heavily designed against people with dyslexia. If one is very good using visual arts, and is only tested through written examination, then a person’s talent is not acknowledged. We need to bring about major educational changes at every stage in terms of syllabi, programmes, teaching and assessment”.
Laura Lurns · Learning Success expert
Key takeaways
- Minister Evarist Bartolo is pushing for system wide change and refuses to give up in his fight to help people with dyslexia.
- Bartolo argues that our efforts to support dyslexic students are not enough.
- He believes that the strict standards of universities are unfairly impacting individuals with learning differences.
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