AUM student numbers ‘secret and confidential’

Malta's national educational authority is not in a position to confirm the number of students enlisted at the American University of Malta.
A spokesman for the National Commission for Further and Higher Education told Times of Malta that it could not confirm that fewer than 15 students are currently attending courses offered by the AUM.
According to the NCFHE, whose members are appointed by the Prime Minister, the number of students at the AUM is “secret and confidential between the licensee and the Commission”.
The NCFHE was the body which awarded Jordan's Sadeen Investments Ltd a licence to open a new private university in Malta.
Although licence provisos require the AUM to give details about students and faculty to the NCFHE, the spokesman said that the law, enacted through a legal notice, obliged the Commission “to treat such information about licensed providers in strict confidence”.
Meanwhile, the AUM, which started its first academic year in September, is still keeping information about the number of students attending lectures at its Cospicua campus under wraps.

Three months ago, Provost John Ryder had told the Times of Malta that all data about the AUM’s student body...