Engineering Profession Board News Today

The Malta Association of Professional Engineers is challenging recent amendments to the law regulating the profession which, it claims, were passed through parl

Engineering students who complete their studies at MCAST are now free to apply for their warrants without having to sit for additional courses or exams. Two ye

Engineering students at MCAST can now obtain an engineering warrant by completing a pre-warrant qualification course approved by Maltas engineering board.  The course has been recommended by German engineering standards consultancy ASIIN, which had been commissioned by the government to assess the MCAST course and recommend changes to it.  The decision brings to a conclusion a long-drawn-out clash between engineers and education authorities about the MCAST course and its academic level.  Ele...

The union of engineers said it is determined to continue to strive to safeguard the rights of the professional community, following a court decision revoking an injunction granted in its favour. In a statement issued in the wake of a court decision revoking an injunction that had been povisionally upheld against the Engineering Profession Board, the Malta Association of Professional Engineers (MAPE) claimed that “justice delayed [is] justice denied”. The union has mounted a legal battle to ...

Courses at Malta College for Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) are externally audited each year and regularly updated to reflect the latest best practices, the college said. Replying to a statement issued on Thursday by the Union Periti u Inġienera tas-Settur Pubbliku, in which the union said that the engineering profession should not be downgraded by being associated with courses which do not require the same level of effort, commitment and attainment, MCAST “strongly” objected “to...

The engineering profession should not be downgraded by being associated with courses which do not require the same level of effort, commitment and attainment, the Union Periti u Inġinera tas-Settur Pubbliku said. It was replying to another statement by the government on Wednesday saying that the academic standard of engineering courses offered by MCAST is to be revised to ensure it matches that offered by the University of Malta. It said it had no intention of lowering standards in the profe...

The academic standard of engineering courses offered by MCAST is to be revised to ensure it matches that offered by the University of Malta, the government said on Wednesday as it reassured that it had no intention of lowering standards in the profession.  Experts from a German accreditation agency which specialises in the engineering field, ASIIN, have been evaluating the MCAST course and preparing recommendations about how to amend it, the Education Ministry said. Their work, which began mor...

A court has provisionally upheld a request for an injunction by the engineers’ union against the Engineering Profession Board, in the latest move to safeguard the rights of professional engineers.  This request follows a judicial protest filed by two elected members on the board, formally disassociating themselves from the allegedly “abusive and divisive” attitude of the board chairperson who was refusing or ignoring their repeated calls for information and consultation.  Having been se...