Id-Direttorat għat-Tagħlim Tul il-Ħajja - Directorate for Lifelong Learning

Who we are?

Directorate for Lifelong Learning in Malta aims at sustaining a knowledge-based economy,and sees learning as a Lifelong pursuit as the key to success. To ensure a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, the Directorate for Lifelong Learning offers adult learning classes in several areas of knowledge. The Directorate is also contributing towards a strong base of high level graduates by offering scholarships in several priority sectors of the knowledge-based economy.

More specifically, the objectives of the Directorate for Lifelong Learning are to:

• design a national strategy in lifelong learning;
• bring about coordination in this sector by making optimal use of the diverse lifelong learning opportunities;
• lift the barriers for participation in adult learning so that the overall participation is increased;
• adopt the Action Plan on Adult Education as set out by the European Commission;
• address the imbalances in participation in order to achieve a more equitable state of affairs;
• to nurture creativity and promote the visual and performing arts;
• provide undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships to create more opportunities for further specialisation at higher levels of education, therefore increasing the availability and employment of high-level graduates in the priority sectors of the knowledge-based economy in Malta.

What we do?

A number of courses including Academic, Information Technology, Literacy, Numeracy, Crafts, Leisure and Creative Arts; that the Adult LifeLong Learning Directorate is offering in various adult learning centres throughout the islands of Malta and Gozo.

Adult Learners who wish to:

• improve their academic qualifications;
• seek employment or improve their chances for a better position at work;
• be able to help their children in their homework or studies;
• finish off their secondary or post-secondary education;
• become computer literate;
• obtain the ECDL certificate;
• overcome literacy or numeracy problems;
• learn a craft;
• pursue some subjects for pleasure;
• tap their creative resources through Art, Music or Drama