Education, Science and Technology

Third country nationals can apply from exemption of fees of state learning institutions if they are so entitled according to Law. Categories of applicants may include asylum seekers, refugees, refused asylum seekers until deported, persons in possession of single permits or a blue card, as well as family members and dependents of those entitled. Fees may also be waived on humanitarian grounds for persons not otherwise entitled.

The National Commission for Further and Higher Education is responsible for licensing further and higher education institutes, and accrediting educational programmes to the Malta Qualifications Framework as outlined in Subsidiary Legislation 327.433.

Students' Maintenance Grants include the following:

• the initial grant
• the one-time grant
• stipends
• the single parents’ grant
• Summer Special Stipend
• Top-Up Stipend
• Supplementary Allowances

Students' Maintenance Grants are provided by the Government of Malta for students attending at an approved Post-Secondary, Vocational and Tertiary Education Institution. The Students' Maintenance Grants’ scheme operates under a set of regulations and the respective Subsidiary Legislation 605.06 determining eligibility.

Students submitting their online application after the end of December of the respective academic year will be considered eligible for the Maintenance Grants as from the date of submission of application.

New students, students changing course and/or institution, repeaters, and students in additional or extension year are to apply for the Students' Maintenance Grants online application at the beginning of the academic year by using their e-ID and password.

A consent form which is to be filled by parent/guardian of students under 16 years of age who are applying for a Students’ Maintenance Grant.

Supplementary Allowances are additional monetary funds awarded to students facing certain circumstances of proven hardship, including financial difficulties.

Tax benefit to individuals who had not completed forty years of age on the date of commencement date of the course who graduate with a PHd, Masters degree or Postgraduate Diploma (minimum 60 credits) (MQF level 8 or 7).