Our educational programme will take on a learner-centred approach, enabling our students to benefit from a parallel education model where sport is used as a tool to learn core academic skills and creative ways of thinking.

Board of Governors

The Board of Governors serves as the governing body of MCS, providing oversight, guidance, and strategic leadership. Composed of experienced professionals, leaders, and stakeholders from various fields, the Board brings a wealth of expertise to the table. They are responsible for setting the long-term vision, establishing policies, and making key decisions that drive the school’s growth and success. Their commitment to the values and mission of MCS ensures the preservation of its core principles and the fulfilment of its educational objectives.

The names of the members of board of governors will be announced in due course.

The high-level of education that student-athletes will acquire within the Mediterranean College of Sport will be fuelled by sport science and data analysis – all monitored by professional educators and staff within a creative holistic approach.

Our dedicated and experienced teachers will focus on 21st century skills and adopt a concept-based inquiry pedagogy where inquiry-based learning and concept-based learning merge to focus on the use of active questioning to drive learning and the transferable understanding in organising learning. Student athletes will be encouraged to develop analytical skills, cognitive skills, communication, creative thinking, critical thinking, decision making as they learn how to confidently work independently when faced with unfamiliar challenges.

Our curriculum gives our student-athletes in Malta a TIME TO SHINE throughout their whole educational experience at the College. It not only engages, challenges, and motivates our student-athletes to achieve their full potential.

Our curriculum is designed to be….

  • Well-balanced and broad-based, ensuring continuous progression throughout, providing outstanding opportunities for students’ academic, intellectual, social, moral, and creative development, to assist them to become lifelong learners.
  • Holistic, thus helping our student-athletes to strike a balance between academic and sporting development. Our Performance Lifestyle programme will be the foundation of our student-athletes’ well-being. It will introduce them to a set of habits and attitudes that form the pattern of how they go about their daily lives and challenges.
  • Deep, as this will enable our student-athletes to develop to their full potential, applying rigour and resilience.
  • Personalised, thus responding to the needs of every student-athlete, as this will support them to enhance their individual talents.

To achieve this…creating high-performing teams

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
Ken Robinson

The Mediterranean College of Sport Leadership Team is made up of ‘inspirational’ and ‘transformational’ educators. Beyond this, our Leadership Team also possesses the organisational skills necessary to run a college.  Our Leadership team encourages collaboration amongst all educators while at the same time engaging in reflective conversations with individual educators to grow professionally, enriching our human capital. The Leadership Team is supported by a community of educators who strive for high standards in the teaching and learning process. This is of extreme importance, as it will not only play a critical role in maintaining quality teaching, but ensures a positive impact on the learning process. Newly recruited educators are supported through a high-quality induction programme, and a robust and effective professional learning programme.

Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate learning, and teach thinking, and in the process discover the passion and moral purpose that makes teaching exciting and effective’.
Michael Fullan

When engaging our educators, we look for qualified and experienced teachers who can embrace and deliver inquiry-based teaching and learning methodologies, with a willingness to grow professionally and at the same time understand the dual career lifestyle of our student-athletes.

We do this through…deep learning.
Our student-athletes are given a solid grounding in the core areas of learning and other areas they study. We strive to achieve this through our innovative pedagogical practices.  We strongly believe that inquiry-based learning is education at its best. Student-athletes engage in evidence-based reasoning and creative problem-solving, whilst our educators are responsive to our student-athletes’ learning needs. This pedagogical approach supports students to effectively develop important skills, such as critical thinking, citizenship, communication, creativity, collaboration, and conceptual thinking, preparing them for the constant changes in local, regional, and global realities.

‘Visible learning is a deliberate mindset that shifts the focus from what teachers are teaching to what students are learning’.
John Hattie

Our student-athletes are given a solid grounding in the core areas of learning and other areas they study. We strive to achieve this through our innovative pedagogical practices.  We strongly believe that inquiry-based learning is education at its best. Student-athletes engage in evidence-based reasoning and creative problem-solving, whilst our educators are responsive to our student-athletes’ learning needs. This pedagogical approach supports students to effectively develop important skills, such as critical thinking, citizenship, communication, creativity, collaboration, and conceptual thinking, preparing them for the constant changes in local, regional, and global realities
To ensure that this is carried out we place formative assessments at the core of our practice.

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and repeatedly in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Formative assessments are at the centre of our assessment policy. Our students’ progress is regularly assessed as part of their learning process. This assessment model offers both educators and students the ability to identify areas for improvement. Teaching strategies moulded according to the student-athletes’ needs together with constructive feedback increases the validity and reliability of our assessment procedures.

Supporting the well-being of our student-athletes now and beyond through our Performance Lifestyle programme

Our student-athletes’ lifestyle affects their development and performance both in the academic and sporting spheres. Their lifestyle is the foundation of well-being and potential. It is the set of habits and attitudes that form the pattern of how they go about their daily lives and challenges.
The range of areas, in our Performance Lifestyle programme include, besides others:

  • Self-reflection through journaling,
  • Goal setting, planning, and teamwork.
  • Time-management, communication, and the use of social media.
  • Well-being, nutrition, and anti-doping.
  • Emotional intelligence, motivation, mindfulness, and self-care

To achieve this…creating high-performing teams