Editing Joseph Muscat (section)

=== Education ===
Muscat attended the Government Primary School in [[St. Paul's Bay]], Stella Maris and [[St Aloysius' College (Malta)|St. Aloysius' College]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.mt/en/Government/Government%20of%20Malta/Prime%20Ministers%20of%20Malta/Pages/Dr-Joseph-Muscat.aspx |title=Dr. Joseph Muscat (2013 – ) |website=Department of Information, Malta, (DOI) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416005840/http://www.gov.mt/en/Government/Government%20of%20Malta/Prime%20Ministers%20of%20Malta/Pages/Dr-Joseph-Muscat.aspx |archive-date=16 April 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Educated at St. Aloysius' in the 1980s, Muscat experienced the closure of Church schools by the Labour government of the day.<ref name=":0" /> This experience was reflected in the Labour party's 2013 manifesto with a pledge to continue financially supporting Church schools.<ref name=":0" />

Muscat graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in Management and Public Policy ([[University of Malta]], 1995),<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=http://www.maltaprofile.info/article/we-have-yet-to-see-the-best-of-malta |title=We Have Yet to See the Best of Malta |date=5 June 2015 |website=maltaprofile.info |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713014815/http://maltaprofile.info/article/we-have-yet-to-see-the-best-of-malta |archive-date=13 July 2015 |url-status=live |access-date=11 June 2017}}</ref> a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Public Policy (University of Malta, 1996),<ref name=":2" /> and a Master of Arts in European Studies (University of Malta, 1997).<ref name=":2" /> In 2007, he attained a Doctorate of Philosophy in Management Research from the [[University of Bristol]]<ref name=":1" /> with a thesis on [[Fordism]], [[Multinational corporation|multinationals]] and [[Small and medium-sized enterprises|SMEs]] in Malta,<ref name=":2" /><ref name=JM>[https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/34503374/492594.pdf Fordism, Multinationals and SMEs in the Periphery: The Case of Microstate Malta 1964-2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927051454/https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/34503374/492594.pdf |date=27 September 2021 }}. Joseph Muscat, PhD thesis, University of Bristol 2007</ref> written during Muscat's term as [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]].