It is that time of the year again when fifth year medical students need to apply for work. After having finished their 5-year, or more, course and taken their June exams, students or rather, fresh graduates immediately start working. To do so, these fifth-year students need to apply for work during the first half of the month of October – specifically from 1st to 12th October. There is a fixed guideline students must follow to apply, part of which requires students to submit a Dean’s statement. This is where the frustration ensues.

The Dean’s statement is issued after both the actual and the revision-of-paper results of the resit sessions are published. Aside from the fact that students must pay for this statement, this year it has not even been issued yet – the reason being that the revision of papers have not yet been published.

Sources confirmed that the Dean’s statement will be issued after the faculty meets to confirm the medical students’ marks and respective rankings on October 9th. Once this ranking is confirmed, and the Dean’s statement is issued students can then finally apply for work. By then only 3 days will be left for students to apply. This inefficiency understandably worries the concerned students and is the main reason for which we were contacted.

Incidentally, this is the first year ever that applications are to be submitted online. It is common knowledge that the system will probably not handle the influx of applications. Students are fearful that amongst them, some will have a hard time applying, or simply have their applications left out. However, we have contacted MMSA regarding this issue, and we were told that they will liaise with all relevant stakeholders to ensure that this will not be the case. Aside of this statement, MMSA are in no way connected to this anonymous opinion piece.

The Faculty of Medicine has always and continues to work diligently to support its students. However, it is issues like these that crop up from their side and unfortunately tend to understandably preoccupy students at times.

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The publishing of this article on this specific date is not intended to effect vote outcomes, it is merely published today as emails were received today at 8:21 am.

In emails sent to us following communication with the University’s Architect and Administrative Director, we were told that all plans to increase parking spaces on Campus are not possible due to Parliament Plans agreed upon back in 2006. This, in turn means that what Pulse and Kris Bajada are proposing to do to fix parking issues on Campus is impossible unless revised in Parliament, something which the University has tried to for other projects, and which shall be brought forward in a different article concerning UoM developments.

We were told the following:

We are also aware of the KSU Statute [Section 6, Article 53] “On the election day, no propaganda or advertising material or other material that may otherwise influence the voting shall be distributed.” However, the Statute as it stands is not in conformity with the voting procedure as it is being done this year i.e. Online Voting therefore the statute has not been updated or at least, an updated version following the AGM has not been made available on the KSU Website. In fact, the available online statute refers to ballots, voting place, counting of votes and ballot boxes. 

Link to latest statute version available: http://www.ksu.org.mt/images/resources/KSU-Statute-EN.pdf

In addition to this, it was brought to our attention that SDM and Pulse as contesting parties failed to respect silent day, after various posts on Facebook which were published throughout the campaign and were sponsored continued to prop up on the newsfeeds of students and Executive Members from both SDM and Pulse also published Instagram posts promoting their respective organisation for KSU this morning. Evidence of these posts can be seen below:

If anyone wishes to see emails, kindly contact anyone from the executive team we’ll be happy to meet and show you in person.

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