Cap. 605 ст. 67Teaching in State schools and public providers of further or higher education.

(1) In State schools and public providers of further or higher education all teaching shall be given to Maltese citizens without any fee being charged. So as to ensure the full exercise of choice of school by parents, the State shall, through agreements of subsidy of non-State schools, when such are of a non profit-making character, in accordance with the availability of public funds, provide gradually for the same gratuity of teaching in such schools as is afforded to students in State schools.

(2) The Minister may by regulations prescribe the fees to be charged for examinations and special courses and the fees to be paid by students who are not Maltese citizens:

Provided that the Minister may exempt any person from the payment of those fees:

So however that, for the purposes of this sub-article, "special courses" means the following:

(a) part-time courses as specified by such regulations;

(b) courses that lead to a qualification classified at level 7 of the Malta Qualifications Framework or higher, except for those courses which persons are required to undertake for the purpose of obtaining a warrant to practise a profession in accordance with this Act or any other law; and

(c) foundation studies courses offered by the University.

(3) The Minister may by regulations determine rates of stipends payable to students who continue with their education after having completed their secondary education and may impose conditions for the payment of such stipends.

(4) The Minister may by regulations order that no fees shall be charged for the teaching of Maltese citizens in schools other than State schools and of a non profit-making character provided that in such a case the Minister shall before making such an order ensure that the schools to which the order applies shall be in a position to continue to provide their services and shall supplement from public funds the financial means of those schools where, following investigations conducted together with those schools, such necessity arises.