The hackathon will be jointly organised online in Cyprus and in Malta by the Malta College of Arts, Science, and Technology (MCAST), the National Skills Council, the EUPA and the Western Regional Council.
The National Skills Council is committed to bringing the educational and employment sectors together to ensure that our citizens acquire the skills relevant to an increasingly dynamic economy and society.
The discussion included the need to have students equipped with the required skills as part of their holistic education and about the need to support educators in reaching these objectives.
The average score for maths in Malta was 509, which is 13 points higher than when it last took part in the study in 2011. For science, the average score was 496, compared with 446 in the last assessment.
A first of its kind, the objective of this nation-wide survey was to bring forth the array of skills among the population of working age of Malta and Gozo.
Over the last 100 years the system of public schooling (including colleges and universities) has changed some but very little compared to the rest of society.
Computer programming has seen one of the biggest rises in the number of employees. An additional 274,000 people work in the field compared with when the last census took place in 2011.