Education sector needs stability, PN says, as fourth minister is appointed

The educational sector is in dire need of stability with a fourth minister having now been appointed in as many years, the Nationalist Party said on Tuesday.  Addressing a press conference, PN MP Clyde Puli said that "recurrent problems" in the country’s schools and higher learning institutions are not being addressed as the educational ministry lacks leadership.   “Under a PN government we had got used to a new school every year, now we have a new minister every year,” he said.   Puli added there had been four different education ministers in some 25 years of Nationalist government, which had ensured stability and continuity in the administration.   “I'm not saying everything was perfect, or that there weren’t things we later learnt could have been done differently, but at least there was the stability for the sector to move forward and act of plans and policies,” he said.   Clifton Grima will on Wednesday be sworn in as education minister following the resignation of Justyne Caruana on the back of a damning ethics investigation.   Puli said that going into this portfolio, Grima needed to be aware of the challenges he faces, which his predecessors had failed to resolve.   “Why...