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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL 2015 8 News 77,550 foreigners attended English language courses in Malta Virtù Ferries This week's winner is STEFANIE MERCIECA with her photograph, the beautiful River Aare in Bern, Switzerland. MaltaToday and Virtù Ferries have teamed up to take one lucky winner and a companion every week to Sicily, with two tickets to be won every week in our photography competition. Already been on holiday? Good: we're sending you back if your best photograph from your holidays and travels makes the cut. That's right: send us a good quality image of your holidays and we'll send the best one to the gateway of Italy with Virtù Ferries. Malta - Sicily Express Ferries For more information visit www.virtuferries.com or contact by telephone 23491000 RULES OF THE COMPETITION maltatoday Conditions apply: 1. Tickets for each week's competition can only be won by one person who submits one entry of a high-res image with description. Entrants with more than one entry WILL NOT be considered. Entrants must send a description of photo. 2. Winners will be informed before the end of the week, and then announced on maltatoday.com.mt and MaltaToday on Sunday. 3. By entering this offer, entrants consent to their photos being published and owned by Mediatoday Co Ltd. 4. The entrant with the best photograph will be awarded two (2) return tickets, valid for travel to any Virtù Ferries destination. Mediatoday's decision is final. 5. Tickets are issued free of charge, excluding port charges, and in accordance with Virtù Ferries' rules and regulations. All taxes and charges are to be paid accordingly by the winning entrant upon the issuance of tickets. 6. This offer is closed to employees and contributors of Mediatoday Co. Ltd and Virtù Ferries, or their family members. This week's theme: Travel SEND US PHOTOS FROM YOUR FAVOURITE HOLIDAY PHOTO COMPETITION WINNER! Photos should be a hi-res image (one per individual entry) with a sentence or two about what inspired you to take your photo. Entrants are kindly reminded not to send in personal family pictures that might be unrelated to theme subjects unless expressly requested. If sending a photo by post, address it to: 'MaltaToday photo competition', Mediatoday, Vjal ir- Rihan, San Gwann, SGN9016 Please supply your daytime telephone number, your name, your home address and an email address. Send the photo via email on info@mediatoday.com.mt [SUBJECT HEADING: MaltaToday photo competition] by next Friday at 9am. Themes may change from one week to the other FOREIGN students attending Eng- lish language courses at local spe- cialised schools last year numbered 77,550, an increase of 3.4 per cent over 2013. The larger part of the students came from Italy, Germany and Russia. In total these made up 49.7 per cent of total student visits. The largest number of language students were aged 18 to 25 and totalled 19,613, or 25.3 per cent. Students aged 50 and over were in the minority and numbered 4,250. Female students outnumbered males, and accounted for 58.0 per cent of the entire student popula- tion. July was the busiest month for English language specialised schools, with 17,207 arrivals, or 22.2 per cent of the annual total. In contrast, December recorded the lowest number of arrivals, with fewer than 1,000 student visits. The majority of English lan- guage students were Europeans (86.5 per cent). Of these, 53,999 were from the EU, while 13,080 were from other European coun- tries. The number of students from Africa increased by 41.5 per cent over 2013. Persons studying English as a foreign language amounted to 4.4 per cent of total foreign nation- als visiting Malta in 2014. During the peak month, 17.8 per cent of the foreigners visiting Malta were English language students. The total number of weeks spent by foreign students in Mal- ta amounted to 245,587. The av- erage duration per student stood at 3.2 weeks, up by 0.2 of a week over 2013. Colombia had the highest average duration per stu- dent, with 13.7 weeks, followed by South Korea and Libya, with 13.0 and 12.2 weeks respectively. Accommodation for the larger number of students (28.3 per cent) was with host families. Ac- commodation in hotels was cho- sen by 14,058, equivalent to 18.1 per cent of foreign students. In 2014, teaching staff in Eng- lish language specialised schools numbered 1,414 and were mainly employed on a part-time basis. Of these, 41.2 per cent were aged between 16 and 24 while female teaching staff comprised 70.9 per cent. Non-teaching staff amount- ed to 885, of whom 59.3 per cent, were employed on a full-time ba- sis.

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