Admissions (Amendment) Regulation, 2025

L.N. 239 of 2025

EDUCATION ACT

(CAP. 327)

Admissions (Amendment) Regulation, 2025

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred upon him by articles 74 (5) and 75 (6) of the

Education Act (Cap. 327), the Chancellor of the University of Malta has promulgated

the following regulation made by the Senate of the University of Malta by virtue of

the powers conferred upon it by articles 75 (3) and 79 (b) of the said Act

Citation

This regulation may be cited as the Admissions (Amendment) Regulation,

2025 and shall be read and construed as one with the Admissions Regulations,

2016, published as Legal Notice 71 of 2016, hereinafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

Applicability

This regulation shall be applicable for admission to University Courses

commencing in October 2025 or later.

Amendment to regulation 13 of the principal regulations

For paragraph (1) of regulation 13 of the principal regulations there shall

be substituted the following

“13. (1) As from October 2025, for admittance to the Junior College, and

as from October 2027, for admittance to the University undergraduate courses,

nothwithstanding the requirement of Maltese at Secondary Education Certificate

level, as specified in regulations 10 and 12 of these regulations, the Admissions Board

may, in special circumstances and subject to the conditions set out hereunder, allow

an applicant to offer another language instead of Maltese, as follows

(a) a Maltese applicant, who pursued less than three years of compulsory

secondary level schooling in Malta, may present a pass in Il-Malti bħala Lingwa

Barranija at SEC level 3 or in another language at SEC level 3 or at grade 5 or better

or at a comparable level.

(b) a Non-Maltese applicant, who pursued at least four years of compulsory

secondary level schooling in Malta, may present a pass in Il-Malti bħala Lingwa

Barranija at SEC level 3.

(c) a Non-Maltese applicant, who pursued less than four years of compulsory

secondary level schooling in Malta, may present a pass in Il-Malti bħala Lingwa

Barranija at SEC level 3 or in another language at SEC level 3 or at grade 5 or better

or at a comparable level.”

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