How is Malta preparing to fill the skill gaps required in a rapidly changing global economy?

Abstract

Throughout economic history, change has been constant. One need only think of the Kondratieff waves, which have been revolutionary in the way they have pushed economies towards growth and development and in turn impacted the way people were expected to adapt to changing economic structures and labour markets’ needs; the Industrial revolution led to apprenticeships; the age of steam power and railways brought the need for mass primary education; the age of electricity led to industrial research and development laboratories; the age of mass production also meant mass secondary education; and the most recent wave of microelectronics and computer networks have demanded lifelong learning/training, data networks, global research and development.