Mes sincères condoléances à Roseline, Samuel et Daniel, pour la perte de leur mari et père. Je garde de merveilleux souvenirs de mon dernier voyage à Malte qui m’avait permis de revoir Ronald et sa famille. La gentillesse de Ronald, son immense culture, son humour, son accueil en faisaient une personnalité brillante et attachante.
Sa disparition, tellement brutale, m’attriste profondément.
Toutes mes pensées et mon affection vont à sa famille en ces douloureux moments .
2
Dear Ronald, you left too soon and so unexpectedly.
You will be missed by all those whose lives you touched in different ways. Walking past your office in the faculty will be a reminder of the numerous times we would have a little chat about work, family - my kids and your grandchildren. You had a way of balancing the personal and professional in a beautiful way.
Tassew hallejtna bla kliem! U dik is-sabbatical ... suppost sena kienet Ron!
Sincere condolences to Roseline, Daniel, Samuel and all the family. You will be in our prayers and thoughts.
2
It was a great privilege to have had the opportunity to spend time with Ronald.
It's a great loss, but his teachings have continued to guide our work.
Thank you for all Ronald.
2
Like my colleagues, I am shocked and saddened by the passing of Ronald Sultana. He taught me qualitative research methods, many moons ago, as part of my Sociology degree. I have also treasured his seminal work on class and education in Malta. I consider myself lucky to have had the experience because he educated with a big heart in his delivery. Luckily, his son has also taught my own son, and so the cycle continued. My deepest condolences to Roseline, Daniel and your other brother and the rest of your family.
2
It is so hard to understand. I think the loss is so much harder to comprehend, because one cannot separate the academic significance of Ronald from his personal significance; he was truly a Mensch! The impact Ronald has made on the career guidance field is truly immense. And even more so the impact on the people in the field: a mentor, an inspiration, a friend.
Being with Ronald in Malta for a whole week in the ECADOC summer school 2019 meant the world to me, academically and personally, and the same goes for the possibility of contributing to his and Tristram's and Rie's books on social justice. Since Ronald's all to early passing, I have been thinking a lot about how important it is for us to continue Ronald's enormous generosity and openness and insistance of giving back to the profession and field.
Warm thoughts to his family and Maltese colleagues and to all of os in the field.
3
Ronald was mediating in starting my doctoral research at the University of Cyprus under Professor Marianna Papastephanou. Recently, I emailed him my article's link and he pleasantly surprised me by sharing it with other academics. This small gesture demonstrates the greatness of someone who truly believes that sharing knowledge is at the heart of the research community. Ronald consistently demonstrated his exceptional expertise with a humble demeanour. It doesn't come as a surprise to me that during his acceptance speech for the Honorary Doctorate at the Université Laval in Québec, Canada, he concluded with the words of Sonya Renée Taylor that ‘We should not long to return to the old “normal”./At present, we are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment’. Thank you, Ronald, for being such an inspirational figure in education and life, encouraging us to step outside our comfort zones and create more meaningful lives.
2
I send my deepest condolences to Ronald's family.
I feel privileged and grateful to have known and learned from Ronald. His contribution to career guidance and passion for social justice cannot be underestimated and will be an influential legacy long into the future. He will be missed but not forgotten.
1
My condolences to Ronald's family. I first met Ronald when he visited us in the Faroe Islands just two weeks ago. It was a privilege for us to meet him here in the Faroe Islands, where he had the opportunity to meet the Faroese guidance network and many other Faroese people from the education sector at the conference on lifelong career guidance and inclusion on the labour market. We will remember and keep Ronald in our hearts.
3
5 years ago - amazing presentation about career guidance and social justice in Prague conference ... personal stories ... making jokes .. important critical ideas out of the box ... supporting better life for all people
5
We are all going to miss you Ron. It extends far beyond the realm of academia, encompassing not just your remarkable intellectual contributions and scholarly pursuits, but, above all, the warmth and depth of your friendship. In bidding farewell to you, we recognize that we are parting with a true giant—a luminary in the world of scholarship, but more significantly, a beacon of extraordinary humanity.
2
This is for Prof. Sultana's grandchildren who when he mentioned them his face lit up. Your grandfather was not just an awesome person, he was an even more exceptional educator. Many educators have the ability to teach their students to know, your grandfather taught his students to become. His sense of compassion towards the downtrodden, the underrepresented was truly admirable and instilled in his students the need to look beyond oneself and always start by understanding others. I am truly saddened by his loss, the only bright side if any, is faith smiled on me by giving me the opportunity to encounter such a wonderful person. His student forever.
5
With deep sorrow we received the message that Ronald Sultana has passed away. Here we would like to express our deep condolence to his family.
For many years, Ronald has been a personal, professional partner, with extraordinary intellectual abilities, with the aptitude of structuring, analysing and presenting complex topics on structures and policies in Lifelong Guidance, always with the approach of people's self-determined path in the middle of thinking and acting.
In the ELGPN – European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network, we were fortunate to work with Ronald personally as delegates from Austria. Ronald´s contributions to conferences in Austria will also be unforgettable.
Above all, however, we will miss Ronald's amicable, humorous way of personal contacts and his inspiring way of conveying contents.
We express our deepest sympathy to the his family. As for many friends and colleagues, Ronald´s personality and work will continue to accompany us.
Peter and Michaela / Austria
And the Team of Styrian Association for Education and Economics
2
Online seminar with Ronald for Czech educational experts about innovation in career education. I invited Ronald and he supported me a lot in new visions.
3
My deepest condolences to all the family. May he rest in eternal peace 🌹
2
I was really shocked to read the news of Ronald's demise in my email box. In the nineties he helped me broaden my academic horizons. Over time he showed to me the huge potential of never-ending dialogue between educational researchers of different countries. I always admired his capacity to build a Mediterranean network that facilitated such exchanges. I can add more and more about different moments in which we collaborated. I will really miss his advice and his many ideas.
2
My deepest condolences to Ronald's wife, family, friends and colleagues. You shared your precious Ronald with the world and we are eternally grateful. Ronald has inspired a generation of career guidance academics and professionals and we are the lesser now for his loss. Despite his eminent and consummate professionalism and international reputation, he remained a truly approachable, encouraging, kind and gentle-man. May he rest in peace. Ar dheis Dhé go raibh a anam.
2
I was shocked and saddened when I heard the news of Ronald’s demise. I could not help but think of Roseline, his sons and their families, colleagues and friends.
May they find solace in the treasured memories of a dedicated husband, father and grandfather, a true gentleman, and the legacy that he left as an academic, researcher and educator. Ronald was highly respected, and this was reflected in the endless tributes, posts and comments that flooded the social media over the weekend. As well said by Colin Calleja, Dean of the Faculty of Education, “his influence extended far beyond the confines of our institution, earning him recognition and respect on a global scale”.
Ronald touched and changed the lives of many, and this goes beyond the people who actually knew him. I started my B.Ed course in 1989 with courage, but at the same time, an underlying sense of uneasiness coming from the fact that I hailed from a working class family, I lived in the “south” and embraced true socialist values. The first few lectures with Ronald were enough to make me, and others like me understand the reasons for this apprehension. When at the end of my first year at University, I asked Ronald to be my dissertation tutor, where I wanted to study why girls ‘choose’ to go to trade schools, he immediately accepted, and there started a three-year journey, where I learnt the importance of being critical and in doing valid and thorough research which extended beyond my dissertation and that I carried with me when doing further studies and my involvement in environmental activism.
Ronald was also one of the founding members of Moviment Edukazzjoni Umana, a movement in which I got actively involved. The involvement in this movement, and the values learnt during the invaluable sociology lectures with Ronald helped guide me throughout my teaching and lecturing career. It is for this reason that I believe that the legacy of Ronald Sultana goes beyond the people who knew him personally, but extends to all those students who, through their educational trajectory met educators who were influenced by Ronald.
Thank you Ronald for being such an inspiring and meaningful person!
2
Dearest Captain,
Am writing after following your funeral online from Lebanon: the country you loved.
I never cried anyone outside my own family as much as I cried you. I now realize you are family. Your genuine care and constant encouragement give you the stand of a father figure to me. You opened the doors of academia and widened my horizons beyond what I could ever imagine. You gave me time and meticulous advice. We shared our thoughts without reservations. Your voice resonates in my ears. Your abundant writing will make your voice resonate for a long time as I read you.
Thank you for being exactly who you are. You will be my inspiration until the last day of my life.
Wadiaa Khoury
3
My warmest and deepest condolences to Ronald's family, friends and colleagues. I am schocked by these news, and feel the world has lost an important voice of humanity. For me, Ronald was a true mentor, always genuinly interested, encouraging, and deeply engaged in making the world a better place.
2
Dear Roseline
I cherish the memories of getting to know you and Ronald when you both spent a year studying at Reading University. Ronald has always been a generous host on our visits to Malta, so proud of his family and island and so interested and engaged in all discussions. Sending love to all your family.
Suzanne
2
His ideas, writings and lectures helped me to connect career guidance with wider world (and maybe more importantly with my values). He was so insightful, yet caring and kind at the same time. You will be dearly missed, Ronald. We will continue in your fight for more just world.
2
Share with others
Donate in memory
