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Newspaper post YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT Netflix? 'Frankly, we don't care' say Melita and GO maltatoday SUNDAY • 10 JANUARY 2016 • ISSUE 844 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY €1.40 Maths sucks! 649 fewer sit for 'O' level JAMES DEBONO FEWER students are sitting for their 'O' level exams in Maths, English and Maltese, which are compulsory for entry to the Jun- ior College and University of Malta. But the drop is sharpest in Mathematics, where the number of candidates decreased from 5,049 in 2014, to 4,375 in 2015. The number of Maths candi- dates sitting for their SEC (Sec- ondary Education Certificate) in 2013 stood at 5,038. Experts who spoke to Malta- Today attributed the drop to an increase in educational opportu- nities for 16-year-olds who do not require a pass in these exams. This large drop in registration for the Mathematics SEC exam does not appear to be explained by the demographic statistics for births in the years 1998-1999, when the majority of candidates sitting for this examination would have been born, an examination report by MATSEC states. In an indication that it is low achievers who are mostly opt- ing out of the SEC examination system, the sharpest decline was seen in the number of candidates sitting for Paper B, an easier op- tion chosen by the majority of candidates. While Paper A grades candi- dates from 1 to 5 (1 being high- est), Paper B grades from 4 to 7. In fact while students sitting for Paper A declined by 8%, students sitting for paper B declined by 17%. PGS 6-7 10 But customers on Facebook claim ISPs are throttling internet speeds at night University gave Catholic burial to Jehovah's Witness who gave body for medical research Family only learnt five months after Beryl Schembri's death that university had buried her in unmarked grave JURGEN BALZAN A woman who agreed to donate her body to the University of Malta's anatomy department was buried a few days after her death – against her express wish – without her family even being informed. Devout Jehovah's witness Beryl Schembri, who passed away on 13 May last year, had signed an agreement with the University of Malta for her body to be donated for anatomical research and study purposes. However six days after she died, the University of Malta decided to bury Schembri's body – most controversially, in an unmarked grave at the Addolorata Cemetery – without even informing her hus- band or any of their five children. One of her daughters, Melissa, only got to know in October, five months after her death, that her mother had been buried after calling the university to enquire whether she could see the body. "But when I called I got the shock of my life. I was told that I couldn't see the body because they had bur- ied her," Melissa Schembri said. "If I hadn't called, we would still be in the dark about my mother's burial," a visibly distraught Schem- bri adds. Schembri was told that the em- balming process had not been suc- cessful and the anatomy depart- ment unilaterally decided to bury Beryl Schem- bri's body. PAGE 4 YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY malta SUNDAY • 10 JANUARY 2016 • ISSUE 844 €1.40 University gave Angelik's spiritual fraud debunked Church disowns Borg in-Nadur mystic YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT Gozo bomb attack Police look into target's business interests and public tenders 3 13 PGS 8-9 Wanted man earns €21,000 a month for part-time financial advisory job • London court orders his extradition to Malta to face fraud and misappropriation charges Spiteri appeals extradition on €7.4 million fraud