Cap. 638 Art. 2Interpretation. 2 [  Cap. 595.   Cap. 607.   Cap. 327. 4 [

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

"academic units" means quality-assured and time-framed education and training modules within programmes, which may include, but are not limited to, work-based learning and apprenticeships;

"administrative affairs" means matters pertaining to the day-to-day running of the College;

"apprenticeship" means systematic, long-term training alternating periods at the workplace and in an educational institution, in the voluntary sector or training centre. The apprentice is contractually linked to the employer and receives remuneration (wage or allowance). The employer assumes responsibility for providing the trainee with training leading to a specific occupation;

"applied and impact research" means the process of establishing CAP.638. TECHNOLOGY

new knowledge or exploring the feasibility of new or improved technology, service or solution, based on a methodology used to solve a specific, practical problem undertaken with the specific aim of benefiting the industry in an impact oriented manner whether directly or indirectly;

"Award" means study programmes of shorter duration which do not fulfil the requirements in terms of the minimum credits required at the respective level of the Malta Qualification Framework;

"Board of Governors" means the Board of Governors established by article 9;

"body corporate" means a body having a distinct legal personality;

"body of persons" means any partnership, fellowship, society, or other association of persons whether vested with legal personality or not;

"College" means the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology as defined by means of article 3;

"Deputy Principal" means the person or persons designated by the Principal to support his office in specific areas or sectors of the College;

"employment" means any labour or work exercised by way of trade or for gain, whether the gain be to the person employed or to any other person, and whether the labour or work is done for wages or other compensation or not, and "to employ" shall be construed accordingly;

"function" means any responsibility, power, obligation, and duty;

"Government entity" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Public Administration Act;

"industry" means any general business activity and commercial enterprise which shall include but is not limited to sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, advertising, creative arts and media, construction, farming and agriculture, fashion, finance, information technology, infrastructure, manufacturing, retail, robotics, artificial intelligence, aerospace technology, space technology, telecommunications, as well as research and development;

"industry-driven and community based curricula" means curricula based on a wide variety of instructional methods and programs utilised to connect what is being taught to the needs of the Industry and the surrounding community, which includes but not limited to, work-based learning; "MFHEA" means the Malta Further and Higher Education

Authority established by the Further and Higher Education Act;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for education;

"MQF" means the Malta Qualifications Framework and shall have the same meaning as assigned to it by article 63 of the Education Act;

"parent" means the father or the mother and includes any person who has the care and custody, whether legal or actual, of a child;

"person" includes a body of persons and any body corporate established by law;

"President" means the person appointed in terms of article 18 to preside over and chair the Board of Governors;

"prescribed" means stipulated by any law, regulation, statute, rule or bye-law;

"Qualifications" means the substantial programmes based on learning outcomes at the respective Level of the Malta Qualifications Framework and having enough workload to meet the requirements depending on the level as required by the Malta Qualifications Framework;

"PHE" means higher education offered at MQF Levels 5 upwards that offers profession-oriented education through close industry collaboration, applied and impact-oriented research, and practice-relevant knowledge that maintains the academic rigour;

"Principal" means the person appointed by the Board of Governors to perform the duties indicated in article 21 and any person who temporarily occupies that office;

"remuneration" means compensation in any form whether in money or in kind;

"VET" means education and training offered at MQF Levels 1 - 4 that aims to equip people with knowledge, know-how, skills and, or competences required in particular occupations or more broadly on the labour market;

"VET provider" means an individual or body corporate who is the administrator of work placements, apprenticeships and internships providing vocational educational programmes at further education or higher levels, as licensed by the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority or is approved by international structures with qualification recognised by the industry;

"Vice President" means the person appointed by the Minister in terms of article 19, to act on behalf of the President and chair the CAP.638. TECHNOLOGY

Board of Governors meetings in his absence or as directed from time to time;

"VPET" means education and training which aims to equip persons with knowledge, know-how, skills and, or competences required in particular occupations or more broadly on the labour market. For the purposes of this Act, VPET is an inclusive term which includes both Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Professional Higher Education (PHE);

"work-based learning" means the acquisition of knowledge and skills through carrying out – and reflecting on – tasks in a vocational context, either at the workplace (such as alternance training) or in a VET institution.