Permanent Secretary

Frans Borg is currently Permanent Secretary at the Ministry for Education, Youth and Employment. Previous to this he served as Director, EU Affairs and Policy Development within the same Ministry. His responsibilities as Director brought him much more in line with modern European educational discourse and philosophy. Frequent contact with delegates from member states, attendance at European forums and close collaboration with European educational experts have immersed him into today’s European policy formulation and the political and educational agenda.

Frans Borg was involved in education as teacher (primary and secondary), assistant head and head of school for 25 years. From 1995 to date he has continued to contribute to the development of national educational policies by sitting on various national committees and boards, particularly the Ministerial Committee on Good Behaviour in Schools (1997-2000); Mid-Week Activity Steering Committee (1997); the National Commission of Education (1996-1998); the National Steering Committee on the Implementation of the National Curriculum (2000); the Schools as Community Centres Working Group (2000); the National Curriculum Council (since 2002), the Parental Involvement and Schools as Community Centre Focus Group (2002-2004); the Board of the Foundation for Educational Services (since 2001), the Socrates Committee (2001); the Matsec Board (2002- 2004); SkolaSajf (1996-2001) and other Ministerial Boards.

Frans Borg can also be considered as one of the pioneers in parental involvement in Malta, having served on the Association of School Councils (AKS) since its inception. He served as President of the Association and Secretary General of the European Parents Association, a Europe-wide association with a membership running into millions of parents, until his appointment as Permanent Secretary. He also has a Masters Degree in Education (Curriculum) and his research was on the effectiveness of parental participation in State Primary Schools. Data was mainly gathered through 18 in-depth interviews carried out amongst parents serving on school councils and 200 self-administered questionnaires. The research had the desired snowball effect as parents identified more with him as their point of reference.

Frans Borg is also in possession of a Teachers’ Certificate, a B.A (Gen) in History and Social Sciences, a Diploma in Administration and Management and another post-graduate Diploma in School Counselling. He is the author of various educational articles, the organiser of national conferences, rallies, workshops and seminars particularly in the field of parental involvement in education in Malta, ran various radio shows on different radios. His name is also linked with Klabb Sajf, a support programme for children in complementary education within SkolaSajf; the European Association of Teachers (Malta) Section (AEDE) (since2001), the Parents in Education (PiE) Forum (since 2003) and the strengthening of Customer Care within the Ministry/Division of Education. His repertoire also contains the participation in a large number of local, European and international seminars and conferences.

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Frans Borg inspiring motto is “Quality, Integrity, Effectiveness”