A think tank meant to make proposals on the future of education in the country is being seen as a flop by teachers’ unions. The think tank, set up last May by then education minister Owen Bonnici, is chaired by Edward de Bono of lateral thinking fame and among its members are high-profile figures like architect Richard England, Chamber of Commerce president David Xuereb and education permanent secretary Frank Fabri. It was to take an opportunity from the COVID pandemic to envision the future of education and was instructed to apply “blue sky thinking”, Bonnici had said at the time. However, the think tank did not meet the September 14 deadline that he set to issue a report and since May has met just four times, last December. The opposition flagged the issue in parliament last week and then accused the current minister, Justyne Caruana, of lying when she said there was no scheduled date for the report to be produced. Teachers’ unions are utterly unimpressed by the think tank. “The ministry of education had contacted us when it was originally set up but we didn’t hear from them for a number of months, up until December of last year when suddenly we had four meetings within two...