Historical context The context is definitely crucial to our understanding of governance and how it can unfold and affect policy-making and implementation. The then Minister for Education (Galea 2006: 4), argued that education in Malta had to be transformed, to move ‘from a fixed educational system to a more flexible one…’. Considering the Act of 2006, school governance became
central to our policy-making discourse, particularly with implications for collaboration within and across levels, encompassing both internal and external accountability.