Malta/ 8.3 Arts and cultural education  

8.3.5 Basic out-of-school arts and cultural education

Since the year 2000, there have been an increasing number of private schools offering dance and theatre courses for children and adolescents, while the state-owned Drama Centre has opened its doors for adults to enrol in drama courses for personal development. Performance based indicators also signal that the Manoel Theatre is targeting children from the start of the season so as to confront the crisis of dwindling patronage for serious drama.

The data in the table below shows the number of students qualifying or obtaining passes in examinations as a result of their attendance at classes and courses run by Malta Drama Centre, the Johann Strauss School of Music, the Malta School of Art, the Wistin Camilleri Centre for Arts and Crafts, the Gozo School of Music and Gozo Drama school.

Drama school students sit for LAMDA and RADA (international examination boards) whilst other qualifications are given by schools. The courses offered by the schools during years up to 2009/2010 had not been yet given their equivalent level according the Malta Qualifications Framework (MQF). However, there are ongoing discussions between the DLLL and MQRIC so that most of the courses being offered in 2011 and 2012 are given their equivalent MQF level.

Additionally the table also gives the number of qualifications obtained by students sitting for International Examinations following private tuition.

Table 20:  Student Qualifications in Cultural and Creative subjects / disciplines, 2005-2010

Source:    Data compiled by Creative Economy Working Group.

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