your malta english and holiday experience

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CONTENTS
50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
YOUR MALTA ENGLISH AND HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE
MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR OF STUDIES
ADVENTURE EVENTS
NSTS LIFESTYLE
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CULTURAL EVENTS
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PARENT AND CHILD (from 6 years)
VERY YOUNG LEARNERS AND BEGINNERS (06-17 years)
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KIDS ENGLISH CAMP (10-13 years)
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TEENS ENGLISH ADVENTURE (14-18 years)
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SCHOOL GROUP PROGRAMMES (11-18 years)
GENERAL ENGLISH SPEAKING PRACTICE
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ACCOMMODATION
HOMESTAY / HOST FAMILY
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GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES
UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
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ARRIVAL AND FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL
ENGLISH FOR MY FIRST JOB AND WORK TRAINING
CULTURAL IMMERSION INTO ENGLISH
NSTS RESIDENCES – BELLA VISTA HOTEL RESORT
CAMPUS
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE AMERICAN ASSOCIATE DEGREE
HIGH SCHOOL
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
BOARDING SCHOOL
GENERAL INFORMATION
STUDENT SUPPORT, SUPERVISION, EMERGENCY NUMBER
VISA REQUIREMENTS TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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OTHER PROGRAMME BROCHURES:
ADULTS – GENERAL, BUSINESS, SPECIFIC ENGLISH, TEACHER TRAINING, ACADEMIC YEAR, UNIVERSITY PATHWAY,
UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
EDUCATION - COLUMBIA COLLEGE AMERICAN DEGREE PROGRAMME, INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE, HIGH
SCHOOL
356) 2558 8000
Innovators of:
English Language Teaching to non-native Speakers in Malta
Innovators of:
Host Family accommodation for foreign students in Malta
Innovators of:
Student and School Residences for foreigners in Malta
Founders of :
FELTOM - Federation of English Language Teaching Organisations - Malta
Founders of :
ALTO - Association of Language Travel Organisers
Initiators of :
ELT national quality assurance and student protection regulations in Malta
F: (+356) 2558 8200
E: nsts@nsts.org W: www.nsts.org
Message from the Director of Studies
YOUR MALTA
ENGLISH AND
HOLIDAY
EXPERIENCE
NSTS invites you to Malta during your
school vacations to celebrate your
scholastic achievements and join our
international student crowd where you
make new friends, speak more English
and enjoy the great holiday atmosphere
that our vibrant Mediterranean island
with long sunny days and bright blue seas
offers you.
Dear Student,
I welcome you to the NSTS English Language Institute!
NSTS invites you to Malta during your
scholastic year with your class mates and
teachers to practise your English and to
enrich your cultural knowledge and social
skills as part of your school studies and
European mobility programme.
At NSTS you will greatly improve your English, enjoy your lessons
as well as our holiday atmosphere. Tens of thousands of young
international students like you have followed our high quality
courses over the past 50 years and keep recommending us.
In fact, 2013 is our 50th anniversary. Celebrate this important
event with us by joining one of our dynamic courses where YOU
will be at the centre of an unforgettable learning experience!
NSTS invites you to Malta for an entire
scholastic year to experience at your
choice, an English or American based
system of learning and to prepare
yourself to join an English speaking
university and become an independent
mature adult of international intellect.
You can choose to come on one of the courses for young, funloving and motivated learners committed to study and improve
their English while simultaneously enjoying a ‘Malta English and
Holiday Experience’. You can also encourage your school teacher
to bring you over as a class group during your school year on a
specifically prepared course and programme of entertaining cultural
events.
WHY?
Malta is versatile, pleasant and welcoming.
Malta is safe, secure and hospitable. Malta is cool, lively and fun loving.
English teaching and general education are formidable.
NSTS is your best host.
English when the British were here a few decades ago and we
inherited our European culture and lifestyle when the Knights of
Malta settled here with us for a good 270 years. They left us a
dramatic history and exuberant riches for you to explore.
NSTS provides you with a blend of adventure, fun, sports,
animation and a definitely good English and educational
experience that meets with your and your parents’ approval.
But today we have caught up with all modern European lifestyles.
We love enjoying ourselves and our annual multitude of summer
festas and fireworks are only a small proof of this. We rally to
open-air concerts, discotheques, street-parties and night boat
cruises with the most popular bands, singers and DJs, we love
shopping, strolling, sun-bathing and swimming, we delight in good
food and derive fun from all we do.
Malta is a small homely island with a friendly population of some
400,000 who readily speak English to foreign visitors. It is just
south of Italy and projects a true European culture and lifestyle
that immediately makes you feel at home. Actually we adopted
We want to share all this with you.
That’s why NSTS invites you to Malta.
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At NSTS, learning English interactively through different media
such as music, drama, visual arts, and movement is guaranteed
to become a fun and action-packed experience in and out of
class. We offer courses at all six levels of the Common European
Framework of Reference (CEFR) that help you improve your
English communication skills through the use of the latest teaching
methods and a variety of interesting current materials.
We moreover offer you regular schooling with your Maltese
counterparts at high school and senior high school as well as
American academic programmes that develop your international
abilities and independent capabilities, so much needed for today’s
Mobility phenomenon.
NSTS gives the utmost importance to your education. Find out
more about our offers for a safe and unforgettable learning and
living experience in Malta.
Louis Grech
Director of Studies
NSTS English Language Institute
1963/2013 English Juniors
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ADVENTURE EVENTS
When in Malta you make your entire day
one big adventure and live up to the name
of “Teens English Adventure”. You will
motivate yourself and cooperate with your
teacher to render lessons exciting and
fun. And you can go much further after
lessons on your free-time and evening
activities. The NSTS animateurs are full of
ideas and enthusiasm to give you a good
and adrenalin- filled time.
NSTS LIFESTYLE
NSTS animateurs are very creative and committed to making your stay memorable to the extent that
you immediately internationalise your experiences as you transmit your pictures and lifestyle relations
to your friends back home. This commitment extends throughout your stay to provide you with no less
than three daily activities, morning, afternoon, evening inclusive of lessons, cultural site visits, sports, sea
faring or country exploring activities, entertainment and fun events.
We encourage your maximum participation. However, depending upon your age you may feel the need
to advise your animateur that you will be moving out with some friends instead of participating on an
optional activity with the group.
If you are enrolled on the “Kids English
Camp” programme your parents can rest
assured that you too will enjoy a stay full
adventure suited to your age and that you
will return home enthused and wanting
to come back as your friendly, skilled and
talented animateurs present you with
exciting moments and give you a good and
safe time.
16+ years
If you are 16 years of age and over and are on the Teens English Adventure programme your included
activities cover 17 events a week, leaving you free to choose your own activities on the other 5 occasions.
You should always inform your animateur when you are not joining him/her on the organised event.
14-15 years
If you are 14 or 15 years of age you are to join and participate in all events throughout the entire week,
also seeking to attend the optional activities.
Even if you form part of a school group
you can fill your day with adventure and
enjoyment during the games, outings,
sports and events with your animateur and
class mates while all the same you profit
from your studies.
Kids
Students attending the Kids English Camp are to join and participate in all the 21 events specially
organised for them and to be with their animateur as often as possible.
School groups
Your group leader too will recognise that
you will learn more easily if you enjoy your
lessons than if you do not.
You will be expected to follow all the programme and share rooms as agreed at the time of booking with
your group leader.
Whatever programme you are following, the NSTS animateurs have the right dose of fun adventure set up for you as you may see from
these few examples below:
Ice-breakers are a series of fun and intelligent games with great
movement and interactions among participants to break down the
communication barriers normally prevalent among strangers and
turn them into one big supportive group of friends.
St Peter’s Big Splash is an afternoon of exhilarating jumps and
dives from high edges into the crystal clear turquoise seas at St
Peter’s Pool together with rival contests of different styles of
jumps and bomb-splash effects.
International Parties rally international students in Malta to
mega parties with popular DJs and the latest tunes that get you
off your feet for the rest of the evening.
Life’s a Beach presents you the thrill of adrenalin-filled fast
moving water-sports or smoother cruising water activities
softened to sunbathing lazily on the beach.
Foam parties are a delight as the dance floor and all who dance
on it are engulfed by powerful jets of oozing soap foam that clings
massively to the body, eventually turns wet and creates friendly
commotions all around.
NSTS Mini-Olympics challenge your sporting capabilities
Karaoke Contest is another attempt for you to become the
next Madonna or Lady Gaga as you grab the micro and sing your
favourite tune to your disapproving audience
Town Scavenger Hunt provides you with a daring orientation
The Great Animation Show is when you are given the stage
to act, sing, mime, play a musical instrument, dance, beat-box,
perform martial arts and show off your talent and much more to
suit all course types and ages by attuning the manner in which the
event is organised and delivered.
in field games, competitions, tournaments and team-building
activities to give you the sportive cutting edge over your friends
and proclaim you the outstanding winner before everyone.
of your Malta home town to locate and collect a list of curiosities
and strange items from the extended neighbourhood in a ‘beg,
steal or borrow’ fashion and be the first to deliver them to the
animateur.
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Face Painting fascinates the younger Kids on Camp as an artistic
animateur transforms faces to represent animals and motivates
artistically talented kids to do likewise.
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YOUR ARRIVAL AND FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL
We greet you at the airport, present you with your Welcome Information Pack and transfer you to your accommodation. We also collect
you and transfer you back to catch your departure flight. Your Welcome Pack will inform you of the weekend English Leisure Events you
are to join, of your other scheduled activities and of your Monday morning transport pick-up place and time to go to school if you live in a
family not close enough to walk to school.
Otherwise you are to be at the NSTS-school at 08:30 in good time for your briefing on the 45 minute multiple choice Placement Test
after which you will get information on your English course, your daily adventure and activity programme, everyday life in Malta and
your “do’s and don’ts”. After a short break you proceed to class at 10:45 with learners of similar level till 13:00 when you go on your first
activity.
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PARENT AND CHILD
CULTURAL EVENTS
VERY YOUNG LEARNERS AND
BEGINNERS
NSTS launches this programme to combine the parents’ need for English
lessons with their child’s need to study English from the young age of 6
years.
A young teacher trained to teach beginners at the delicate age of 6 to
9 years provides motivational lessons through language games, drawing,
singing, acting, painting and other imaginative features that encourage
the child to speak English. Teaching is adapted to older kids when no Kids’
English Camp or Teens English Adventure Course is operative.
This course may be followed by two or three children of similar level of
English together.
CHARMING GOZO attracts
many visitors because of its
simplicity, rural lifestyle, and
natural scenic beauty. It offers
many historical sites including
the fortified Cittadella that
dominates the central hilltop
and watches over the capital
Rabat. Further away along the
coast are the fishing villages of
Xlendi, Marsalforn and Dwejra
with its picturesque Azure
Window and Fungus Rock. Gozo
serves the visitor more of an
inspiration than an education
but is certainly worth a visit.
At the same time the parent follows an adult course in any of General,
Business, Academic or Specific Purpose English available on the NSTS
English Adult brochure and keeps a close enough eye on the child/children.
Accommodation is at the NSTS Residence, at a host family, hotel or, upon
request in an apartment.
Availability: All year round
Duration: from 1 week
Entry levels: Child: A1/Beginners
Parent: see adult course conditions
Class lessons/week: 20 x 45 minutes over 5 mornings/afternoons
Av/Max Learners in Class: Child: 1/3 when booking together
ANCIENT MDINA AND ANTIQUITIES takes you back to
Roman times, the advent of St Paul in 60AD, and the Roman
Catacombs, before projecting you to some 800 years later when
the Arabs resized the city into a much smaller Mdina and its newly
formed suburb, Rabat. Most of Mdina was again rebuilt in baroque
style after the earthquake of 1693. You will experience these
three different historic phases on this highly educational excursion
and learn more at the interesting re-enactment attractions.
THE THREE MEDIEVAL CITIES BY THE HARBOUR were
home to Malta’s sailors centuries before the arrival of the Knights
with the more historic of the three, Vittoriosa, being protected
by the imposing Fort St Angelo. On their arrival the Knights
rebuilt an area called the Collachio with many new palaces and
winding narrow streets which you will explore as you walk to the
Inquisitor’s Palace before crossing the harbour by Dghajsa to
reach Senglea and the Gardolja watching over the mouth of the
Harbour.
THE TRADITIONAL FARMING, FISHING AND BUILDING
VILLAGES OF THE SOUTH present you with Malta’s traditional
and simple peasant, fisherman and mason’s life. You will meet the
villagers and explore their houses, buildings and church before
you set out to the nearby small fields and rubble walls to meet
the farmers at work. You will learn about the traditional stone
mason’s trade at an old natural stone quarry which now houses
The Limestone Heritage and then go to a fishing village to face life
at sea and touch the colourful Maltese fishing boats - Luzzu.
THE CAPITAL CITY OF VALLETTA was built as a highly
fortified city with many magnificent palaces and churches and a
stupendous Co-Cathedral that show the great power and wealth
of the Knights of Malta. You will admire the architectural beauty
as you walk the streets and climb up to the upper Barrakka
Gardens for a panoramic view of the Grand Harbour and its
defences. You will attend the audio-visual show “The Malta
Experience” of Malta’s great past and re-live the power of the
mighty battlements.
Each day long excursion is led by an animateur who discusses the sites and asks you for information and your opinion. Entry to
museums, attractions and places of interest against a charge are at your discretion if not included at time of booking.
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Parent: see adult course conditions
Accommodation: NSTS Residence, host family, hotel, apartment
Airport transfers & programme supervision: not included
KIDS ENGLISH CAMP
NSTS young, creative and trained teachers patiently stimulate the
Kids to make use of the wealth of English learnt at school. Over
a few casual and fun-filled weeks of games, songs and stories the
child opens up and strings words into sentences.
This congenial ambiance spills out of the classroom into the
residence where the Kids play games, use their talents and share
experiences across nationalities while supervised caringly by
animateurs who also take them on outdoor activities to the
Availability & Duration: Easter : March/April – 1 to 3 weeks
Summer: June/September – 2 to 8 weeks countryside, the beach and on cultural events.
Entry level: A1/Elementary
In the evenings the Kids watch DvDs, play games, go for walks and
Class lessons/week: 20 x 45 minutes over 4 or 5 mornings/afternoons enjoy activities suited to their age until it is time for lights out.
Class & Activity involvement/week: 21 sessions of 3 - 4 hours
The Kids live exclusively at the NSTS Residences together with
Av/Max Learners in Class: 10/15
Animateurs who extend their watchful eye, but the parents’
Accommodation: NSTS Residences
responsibility for their child’s actions and omissions remains
Airport transfers & programme supervision: included
vested in them.
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TEENS ENGLISH ADVENTURE
The NSTS Teens English Adventure programme
fuses the rebellious and studious elements in you
to give you the best balanced whooping time of
your life where you excel in spoken English and
enjoy both your lessons and after class animation
events.
Your teachers facilitate your learning process
through the activities they create for you to speak,
listen, read and write. You will be active moving
around as you role play, do a variety of motivating
language games, listen to your favourite songs in
English, sing and finally compose new lyrics. More
excitement follows during your drama lessons
when you act your own script before your class, or
stage a media event.
Your class learning process flows out seamlessly
into your activities led by trained animateurs as
you speak about the beauty and riches of places
like Valletta, Mdina, The Three Medieval Cities,
the villages of the South, the Limestone Heritage,
Dingli Cliffs, Gozo, and more.
During your mid-term and Easter holidays you
explore different natural habitats and wild life in
the country, while during the summer you go to
the beach, sunbathe, swim, canoe, snorkel and
enjoy yourself doing various water-sports.
As the sun sets you join numerous evening
Adventure Events to entertain yourself partying,
dancing, socialising, munching through your
favourite pizza or burger, beach barbequing,
bowling, singing karaoke, foam partying,
rehearsing and performing a class production
on the Knight of the Talents and following many
similar animation shows.
Your entire day is a sequence of 3 exciting events
of 3 to 4 hours with a minimum of 17 events
a week giving students over 16 years free time
to make their own arrangements, and younger
students time for optional events.
You will live at an NSTS Residence with its
dedicated animation and games lounge, swimming
pool, internet café and other attractive facilities
or at a select host family. Both accommodation
types are broadly supervised.
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Availability: Winter March/April, May, October, December/January
Summer: June/September
Duration: Winter: 1-3 weeks, Summer: 2-8 weeks
Entry level: A2/Pre-Intermediate
Class lessons/week: 20 x 45 minutes over 4 or 5 mornings/afternoons
Class & Activity involvement/week: minimum 17 sessions of 3 - 4 hours
Accommodation: NSTS Residences, Host Families
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SCHOOL GROUP PROGRAMMES
The European Union strongly recommends
mobility programmes for young people when still
at school and provides various incentives for this
to be attained. Many school teachers organise
educational school trips during the scholastic year
to provide their students with a better notion of
European integration and job mobility.
Malta has become a popular European destination
for such school trips, mainly because it is English
speaking, its pervading British influence over
its natural Euro-Mediterranean culture, its 7
millennia of history, the friendliness and hospitality
of its people, its safety and security besides
offering a youthful environment for students.
NSTS has become popular among school
teachers because of its caring attention to detail,
its commitment to the educational needs of
students, its unfailing support and assistance, its
resourcefulness and flexibility, its abundance of
ideas and ability to organise events, its central role
to make every stay pleasant and successful.
Accommodation includes a town orientation walk,
assistance of an animateur on three half-days for
the organisation of activities, parties or events, and
airport transfers on arrival and departure and may
be availed of in the NSTS School Residence with
leisure lounge and facilities for school groups or at
host families.
CULTURAL IMMERSION INTO ENGLISH
ENGLISH FOR MY FIRST JOB & WORK TRAINING
GENERAL ENGLISH SPEAKING PRACTICE
The school group gains a double advantage: English and a cultural
awareness of Malta’s unrivalled history. Although small in size Malta
boasts of the first ever known free standing monuments built by
mysterious prehistoric man 7,000 years ago and of the first ever
collective seat of European rulers within the European Union founded by
the Knights of Malta.
Directed at older students who are about to leave school or who attend
a vocational college, this course, in the morning or afternoon depending
upon budget, presents topics related to job prospects for discussion in
English, such as writing a Europass CV and covering letter, a resume’,
a business letter, dealing with English e-mails and the internet, an
introduction to corporate culture in an English or international office,
and the English skills needed to be successful on the job. Equipped with
a good level of spoken English, you proceed to a select 20 hour work
placement that provides first hand training in a job away from home.
This is the classical stay for a school group: 20 lessons of English
conversation practice in the morning or afternoon according to budget,
free-time included activities in sports, nature, drama, music, art, optional
cultural site seeing visits to historical places (sample on page 8) and more
to gain as much as possible from this educational experience. The teacher
may reserve fewer lessons and more siteseeing opportunities including
visits to factories, industries, offices and the hospitality industry and may
request that lessons be conducted on a particular theme of interest to
serve as a project to take back to school.
Availability: During scholastic year September/June
Duration: 1 to 2 weeks
Entry level: B1/Intermediate
Average Learners in Class: 12/18
Work Training/week: 20 hours
Leisure Events: 3 half days/week
Group sizes: 15-24; 25-50 students
Airport transfers, group leader & programme supervision: included
Average Learners in Class: 12/18
Cultural Visits: optional, to select
You would understand English fairly well to follow explanations at the
various cultural sites. However, you would have already prepared yourself
for these visits before leaving home to maximise your return from this
educational visit to Malta.
Entry level: B1/Intermediate
Cultural Visits: 4 full-days/week
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Accommodation
The experiential part of the “NSTS Malta English and
Holiday Experience” is best enjoyed when you participate
in the complete programme with your international
friends and make use of the NSTS recommended
accommodation.
NSTS offers you 2 different types of accommodation:
the traditional Homestay/Host Family and Student
Residences for collective living. Participants on the Parent
and Child arrangement may opt for a hotel or selfcatering apartment as available on the Adult brochure.
Living at a Host family has the advantage of living in a
small community of maximum 4 students and being cared
for by the host mother while at a Student Residence you
live collectively.
Each of the 2 different residences on offer has its own
leisure, animation and games room specially dedicated to
students on these programmes. It is here where you meet
friends, play games, watch DVD or TV, socialise and enjoy
yourself during your idle time. This room doubles up as the
organised activities room in the residence when events like
The Great Animation Show is on. In short it is your indoor
hub.
Upon checking-in at a Residence, you will need to place a
refundable deposit €50 against damages or misdeeds.
HOMESTAY/ HOST FAMILY This accommodation arrangement is a preferred option of many
parents who seek protection and care for their children within the
embrace of a host family.
NSTS RESIDENCE – BELLA VISTA HOTEL
RESORT
This 4 star hotel resort has been selected for you because of its
prime location, opposite an expanse of green and a national park
ideal for activities and its proximity to the beach, in addition to its
friendly and caring management always willing to ensure that you
and your friends are comfortable.
The hotel boasts of a good buffet style restaurant with a variety
of dishes at each meal, a swimming pool and sun terrace, lounges
and common rooms in addition to the NSTS leisure and animation
room.
The hotel dedicates specific wings and floors of bedrooms to
host NSTS students separately from other guests. These have
well-appointed bedrooms with private ensuite bathroom and airconditioning. The 3 and 4 bedded rooms are uniquely priced while
a few 2 bedded rooms are available at a supplement.
NSTS officials personally visit and interview each family before
selection and keep regular contact to ensure the care and safety
of junior students, even though the parents retain responsibility
for the actions and omissions of their children while living at
the host family. This however, offers parents comfort in the
knowledge that their children are in safe hands while the children
receive the attention due to them.
NSTS RESIDENCE – CAMPUS
This is a new addition to the NSTS managed student residences
and hostels with one whole wing specifically designed with safety
features and animation area to receive junior students under
the age of 18 years. As a new addition it sports many modern
minimalist features and abounds in an array of corporate bright
colours that give it a young and cheerful look.
It is strategically located in Msida some 800 meters beyond the
boundary of the seaside town of Sliema overlooking the University
of Malta sports grounds and national Olympic size open-air
heated swimming pool. It consequently enjoys a considerable
expanse of open ground and fresh air that lead to the NSTSEnglish Language Institute some 700 metres away.
This entire wing, the Yellow Wing, comprises 5 bedded rooms, 4
beds of which in an original duplex form, each room with a private
shower and toilet en-suite, or located in the corridor. These
rooms are complemented by single or twin bedded rooms on each
floor which are reserved for group leaders.
Junior students on these programmes are accommodated on
either half-board or full-board.
Students are accommodated in 2 or 3 bedded rooms and share
facilities on a full-board basis that includes a packed lunch. They
are expected to integrate, respect their hosts and dedicate time
speaking to the family, particularly at meal-times, as well as give a
helping hand in keeping their room and bathroom clean and tidy.
Laundry facilities are included and available upon request.
Families are located in various areas around the school within a
radius of some 2 kilometers. During peak seasons when the more
distant families are in use, NSTS organises dedicated transport
to ferry students to the school and back close to home after
organised evening activities.
BELLA VISTA HOTEL
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NSTS CAMPUS RESIDENCE
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GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES
UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IN ENGLISH AND
BUSINESS STUDIES
NSTS–International Academy is the brand that provides general
education programmes in Malta on an international level and invites
students to follow a general course of studies within the English
speaking environment of Malta.
The British introduced their system of education close to a century
ago which is followed to this very day. Malta therefore offers the 5
year high school system followed by 2 years of senior high school to
gain entry to a university. Teaching in the main is through English
even if Malta’s national language is Maltese and international
students may join any grade from age 11 years upwards.
NSTS – International Academy also offers the American system of
education at further and higher levels that lead to qualifications at
level to 5, pre-university, and level 6, bachelor’s degree in Business
Management.
Students must have a sufficiently high level of spoken English at a
minimum of IELTS 5.0 or its equivalent to join the class with profit
and not disturb other students. They must therefore sit for a SKYPE
interview in English between April and June to start their studies in
October and be prepared to follow up to a 3 month long intensive
course in English at the NSTS-English Language Institute as from
early July if found not to have sufficient knowledge of English.
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This is a very intensive 24 week combined course in English and
Business Studies that leads to 2 British Certifications. This twoin-one formula gives you the advantage of saving one full year in
time and money. With your certificates you directly join the first
year undergraduate degree course in Business Management at
one of many English speaking universities worldwide. Your teacher
will help you apply to join a course at any of these universities that
offer you this outstanding advantage.
The course starts in the first semester with intensive general
English lessons in the four language skills, grammar and
vocabulary to bring you up to speed in your knowledge of English
when it branches out to prepare you for your two important
examinations. You will be trained in English examination
techniques to sit for your IELTS exam around mid-way through
the course depending upon your progress and giving you the
opportunity to sit for better grades.
In your second semester, you will ease on your studies in English
and concentrate on four core business subjects; Management,
Economics, Marketing and Accountancy as you prepare yourself
for your up-coming second British examination.
Availability: Twice a year June, December
Duration: 24 weeks
Lessons per week: 40 including self-study
Lessons: General English, Exam Preparation, Business Studies
AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FORMATION
AMERICAN ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE DIPLOMA
PROGRAMME
By international accreditation agreement, the credits that you
gain at the Malta Campus are fully transferable to the Columbia
Campus and vice versa, giving you the freedom to select the
Campus of your choice at any time during your undergraduate
studies. You will become a truly international business player who
possesses an American as well as a European formation and will
have the power to equally understand both philosophies of life.
This programme is of a holistic formation that practices creativity,
action, decision making, and service through the many extracurricular and sport activities in addition to presenting a formal
learning environment. It may optionally be subscribed to as a boarding
college programme for additional value and self-development.
Many students pride themselves in acquiring an American
tertiary education qualification and head off to the United
States just for this. However, the new Columbia Campus of the
NSTS-International Academy changes all this and gives you an
innovative opportunity to qualify equally in Malta and the States.
The NSTS-International Academy offers you yet another
sophisticated American system of education - the International
Baccalaureate Diploma Programme that sharpens your skills to
become a successful candidate to join practically any American
university in the States. The added value is that you study in a
safe, pleasant English speaking environment in the heart of the
Mediterranean.
The Associate of Science covers the first two full years of the
Bachelors of Science in Business Administration during which
you will sit for full-time credits selected from Management,
Marketing, English, Economics, Accountancy, Computing,
Mathematics and other subjects. At the end of your course, taken
at either Campus, you qualify as an Associate of Science and are
guaranteed a place for your Bachelor degree.
As a pre-university level two year course, you will select a total of ten
subjects: three to be taken at higher level, three that must include
English and mathematics at standard level if not taken at higher
level, and four chosen from modern languages, the natural sciences,
business and managements economics, philosophy, environmental
systems and societies and the visual arts.
Availability: Academic year August/May
Preparatory English commencment: June, November
Semester commencement: August, January
Duration: English preparation 4 to 8 weeks; academic semester
Availability: Academic year September/June
Preparatory English commencment: July/August
Baccalaureate commencement: September
English Class lessons/week: 20 to 30
Academic Class lessons/week: 25
Accommodation: NSTS Residences, Host Families, Boarding School
16 weeks, academic year 32 weeks
Academic Class lessons/week: 18
Accommodation: NSTS Residences
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ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL FORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
STUDENT SUPPORT, SUPERVISION,
EMERGENCY PHONE, CLUB SERVICE CARD
The NSTS Animateurs are always present at the school and on organised
activities to offer assistance, information and supervision and to ensure that
our services meet with your expectations. They accompany you during all
organised English cultural and leisure visits, sports, activities and events,
but you must take extra care and attention when unaccompanied and with
nobody to supervise you. You must always carry your NSTS Club Service
Card with you and call the emergency number +356 7949 5977 found on
your card when you need help in case of severe difficulty.
HIGH SCHOOL
The NSTS – International Academy entered into convention with
a number of locally registered High Schools to accept international
students, subject to space availability, into their classrooms alongside
Maltese students. The minimum acceptance age is of 11 years or
completion of six years of junior schooling. The actual grade of
admittance will depend upon the applicant student’s own school
testimonial.
The course subjects at High School cover English, modern languages,
mathematics, science, social and environmental studies, physical
education and optional subjects, in addition to extracurricular
activities that include various sports, gym, art, theatre and class
activities to develop the personality.
The student will be expected to attend High School every day but
may opt out from particular class subjects and do other studies
instead. At the end of the scholastic year the student will be awarded
a testimonial on the work done and progress achieved.
Availability: Scholastic year September/June
School year commencement: September
School Class lessons/week: 40
Accommodation: Host Families
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Senior High School represents the final two years of schooling
at pre-university level and prepares students for the English “A”
level examinations or their equivalent to present themselves for
entry to an English speaking university.
You will decide which subjects you wish to study by selecting any
two from each of the following groups:
• English and a European language
• Accounting, economics, computing or pure mathematics;
• Pure mathematics, physics, computing, chemistry or biology
together with four other subjects chosen from the humanities,
commerce and the sciences.
Moreover, you integrate with students of your age and participate
as a team in the many extra-curricular and sport activities
designed to give you a complete English speaking education and
personal formation.
Availability: Scholastic year September/June
School year commencement: September
School Class lessons/week: 25
Accommodation: NSTS Residences, Host Families, Boarding School
BOARDING SCHOOL
You may opt to be a boarder while you follow Senior High School, or even High School if a boy, in preference to being hosted as a
paying student at a Maltese family. In Boarding School you will learn to share more with fellow students, to be more disciplined,
tolerant and understanding as well as be able to participate more in sports and extra-curricular activities. You will also have fun and
amusing episodes that make boarding life so colourful and enjoyable.
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VISA AND TEMPORARY RESIDENCE PERMIT FOR
STUDY REASONS
Citizens from certain countries outside the European Union require a Visa to
enter Malta that you must obtain from your home country before you start
travelling. A Visa is issued by the Embassy of Malta or an Honorary Consul
of Malta in your country, or by the Embassies of Austria, France, Italy, Spain.
Consult www.foreign.gov.mt/ under Services / Travelling to Malta. Learners on
high school and academic long term (more than 12 weeks) courses are to also
consult Residence CEA/L/8 to extend their stay in Malta after week 12.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Applications for persons under 18 years of age must be, and are deemed to be, endorsed by the person’s parent/legal guardian who simultaneously retains full
responsibility for their protégé’s acts and/or omissions during the latter’s stay in Malta. Applications through agents are deemed to be equally endorsed.
The conduct of a person under 18 years of age enrolled on an NSTS programme is governed by a student charter that is available upon request. The terms govern, among
other things, unaccompanied outings in the evenings, return times, a refundable deposit of €50 levied by Residences against damages or misdeeds, smoking and the
prohibition of consumption of alcohol and do not exclude 16 year olds and over.
Enrolments accompanied by credit card full payment details will be received by electronic means at reservations@nsts.org or by fax on +356 255 88 200 up to 2 weeks
before arrival (4 weeks for stays in July and August). If payment is by bank transfer to APS Bank Ltd, Valletta Malta (IBAN MT38 APSB 7709 10006515 10 6515 400
10) it must be effected 3 full weeks before arrival (5 weeks for stays in July and August) as there is a processing time of 1 week.
Enrolments will only be accepted and confirmed subject to receipt of full payment, space availability and NSTS being exonorated for any and all liability.
Changes notified or effected within 10 days prior to arrival are subject to a EUR50 fee. Cancellations or curtailments notified or effected within 10 days prior to arrival or
‘no shows’ are subject to a EUR250 fee at the discretion of management. No refunds are permitted for failure to utilise part or all of the services.
Fees include all that specified as incorporated in the selected service described in this brochure and NSTS is not liable for that not contained herein. NSTS reserves the
right to alter any service, description and fee without prior notice and to provide substitute services of at least comparable standard and contents as originally confirmed.
NSTS may, without being liable in any manner whatsoever, exclude any person from a service applied for or being consumed, and demand his/her repatriation, if, in the
opinion of Management, s/he appears likely to endanger or impair the health, safety or comfort of other persons using concurrent services, or the reputation of NSTS by
his/her acts or omissions.
In enrolling with NSTS the applicant consents and authorises NSTS to process any personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act of Malta and to transfer/
disclose such data to other companies within the NSTS group of companies as deemed necessary for the provision of the services enrolled for and for the purposes
associated thereto. Applicant consents to being photographed for promotional purposes and to receiving marketing materials from NSTS and will be given the
opportunity to opt out from this consent according to law.
This brochure and all commercial relations arising here from are deemed to be executed through the brand NSTS of company registration C4425 of 220 St. Paul Street
Valletta VLT 1217 Malta.
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220 St. Paul Street, Valletta
VLT1217 Malta
T: (+356) 2558 8000
F: (+356) 2558 8200
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E: nsts@nsts.org
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