Dear Parent/Guardian

The Directorate for Research, Lifelong Learning and Employability (DRLLE) within the Ministry for Education (MFED) will be collecting and processing data of students registered within State Education Institutions, to carry out its functions and legal obligations.

Student data will be processed and analysed within a system, to assist DRLLE in deriving Predictive Analyses, which can then help MFED in planning policies, strategies and directives to improve the education system.  For example, the Directorate for research would like to know how many children aged between 14 to 16 years have left school completely. The Directorate does not need to know the names and surnames or identity numbers of those children but needs only to know the date of birth of those children. The name, surname and identity number of those children shall therefore be replaced by a simple number so that no one would know who they are.  The Directorate would thus know only the number of children who have left school at those ages.  The Directorate can then analyse and research that data to discover why those children have left school and so the Directorate can develop systems and policies to help reduce this number of school leavers

Student data held in the system will carry a fictitious reference which will not point to any real details.

Further details can be found in the Data Protection Policy (https://education.gov.mt/en/resources/Documents/Policy%20Documents/Data-Protection-Policy-in-relation-to-the-Data-Warehouse-Solution-Research-Project.pdf)

Director-General, Educational Services