Prof. Suzanne Gatt is a teacher trainer at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. She is also an independent consultant on issues related to education at both national and European level. One of her research interests these past years have been European integration and reform in education. She has contributed to the Bologna Process as a contributor to the national Report of 2005, developing the Diploma Supplement at the University of Malta, and academic research for the Bologna Experts Groups in Malta and publishing in Journals. She has also been working closely with the Malta Qualifications Council, drafting policy documents with respect to the Malta Qualifications Framework, VET qualifications, Quality Assurance and the Validation of informal and non-formal learning. She has also reviewed the Referencing document published by the Malta Qualifications Council in Malta. Prof. Gatt recently been engaged in the Leonardo project INLearning with the Malta Qualifications Council which involved the development of a methodology for drawing up occupational standards in sector skills and the development and piloting of the new tool Lifepass for the validation of informal and non-formal learning in ten different countries. She has also been working on Quality Assurance, acting as rapporteur on the workshop on QA at the Presidency Conference on Adult Education held in Hungary 2011. Prof. Gatt was involved in the project EQAVET Malta and involved in drawing up of a Manual for the implementation of EQAVET in Malta. She supports the National Commission for Further and Higher Education (NCFHE) in Malta within REFERNET and is currently involved in a research project for Cedefop on Apprenticeships in Malta as well as in the Leonardo project PEV (Pathway from EQAVET to NEQAVET).
